J4 Blog page output: how to cut down amount of text displayed?

[djcaptpln880]

Greetings

THanks in advance

I am looking at my website.com/blog page and it lists articles 100% instead of cutting down the text to a limit like other sites do.

How would I cut down the text displayed in the website.com/blog output to a maximum amount of characters for each article being outputted to this page?

Is it only a matter of using the "read more" code when editing in JCE editor? or something less arbitrary?

[toivo]

Is it only a matter of using the "read more" code when editing in JCE editor?

Yes, that will do it. If you look at the columns of the database table _content, the initial text above 'Read More' ends up in 'introtext' and the rest into the next column, 'fulltext'.

[djcaptpln880]

That seems like a very arbitrary an inexact way to do it

Is there another way to make this process more or fully automated?

[toivo]

It would be possible to develop a system plugin that automatically presents articles as if they had 'Read More' inserted by the author.

This question was asked at the forum two years ago and it may have some ideas: Read more automatic for Joomla 4