No Code to Truncate Posts on Home Page

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I’d like to truncate longer posts on my home page. According to https://help.micro.blog/t/truncated-posts-on-your-microblog/60, there should be a custom theme template I can edit called list.html that contains the following code:

<div class="e-content">
    {{ .Content }}
  </div>

However, the only template I can find called list.html appears under Templates for Arabica theme and is called layouts/_default/list.html. This template does not contain the code shown above. Its contents are:

{{ define "body_class" }}tag-template{{ end }}
{{ define "title" }}{{ .Title }}{{ end }}
{{ define "main" }}
{{ $paginator := .Paginate (where .Pages.ByDate.Reverse "Type" "post") (index .Site.Params "archive-paginate" | default 25) }}
<main class="content" role="main">
  {{ if not $paginator.HasPrev }}
    {{ if eq .Data.Plural "tags" }}
      <h2 class="tag-title">{{ .Title }}</h2>
    {{ end }}
  {{ end }}

	<div class="extra-pagination">
	    {{ partial "pagination.html" .}}
	</div>
  {{ range $paginator.Pages  }}
  {{ .Render "summary"  }}
  {{ end  }}
  {{ partial "pagination.html" .  }}
</main>
{{ end }}

The templates listed under Default Templates do not include any called list.html.

I’m at a loss, therefore, as to how to truncate longer posts by default, and would appreciate any help you can offer.

2

When you say, “on my homepage” that means you need to look for layouts/index.html not the list template. You probably will find {{ .Content }} there and you can replace that with {{ .Summary }} or a custom truncate format.

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Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

I don’t know what to do with the template layouts/index.html - it contains the following:

{{ define "main" }}
	<main class="content" role="main">
    {{ $paginator := .Paginate (where .Site.Pages "Type" "post") }}
    <div class="extra-pagination">
      {{ partial "pagination.html" . }}
    </div>
		{{ range $paginator.Pages }}
      {{ .Render "summary" }}
		{{ end }}
    {{ partial "pagination.html" . }}
	</main>
{{ end }}

Would {{ .Summary }} work somewhere in there?

4

Render summary should already be providing a truncated post. Unless your theme has a specific summary.html template that overrides the defaults. By default, Hugo summaries are the first 70 words of your post.

5

Hmm. It’s not truncating the posts, though. I’ll write to Help, though I’m sure @Manton is busy already on this last day of the year. Thanks again, @jsonbecker :slight_smile: