Blog Landing Page with Excerpts only

I saw a theme by another developer who shows on their demo site the blog landing page as an excerpt type format. See here:  http://noplite-demo.pronopcommerce.com/blog

Is there a way to achieve this with this theme? I want a way to condense the entries on the main blog page with the "read more" link to go to the actual entry.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

This is quite easy to do in the Blog\List.cshtml view. On line 46:

@Html.Raw(item.Body) you can truncate the item.Body to as many characters as you need and format it as you need. Below it you can add a link to the blog post. So the code could be something like:

@Html.Raw(item.Body.Substring(0, 300) + "...")
<br/>
<a class="post-title" href="@Url.RouteUrl("BlogPost", new { SeName = item.SeName })">@item.Title</a>

I hope this is useful!

What about the issue of having some entries having images first? The snipit of code would also include those as characters as well. Is there a way to code it so it ignores the img tag altogether within the content body and apply the character count that way?

You can parse the item.Body beforehand for all <img ... tags via Regex and replace it with String.Empty.