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# readmore - Breaks blog entries into summary an...

## Summary

Allows you to break a long entry into a summary and the rest making it easier to show just the summary in indexes.

## Install

This plugin comes with Pyblosxom. To install, do the following:

1. Add `Pyblosxom.plugins.readmore` to the `load_plugins` list in your `config.py` file.

   Note

   If you’re using the rst_parser plugin, make sure this plugin shows up in load_plugins list before the rst_parser plugin.

   See the rst_parser section below.

2. Configure as documented below.

## Configuration

`readmore_breakpoint`

> (optional) string; defaults to “BREAK”

> This is the text that you’ll use in your blog entry that breaks the body into the summary part above and the rest of the blog entry below.

> For example:

>     py["readmore_breakpoint"] = "BREAK"

`readmore_template`

> (optional) string; defaults to:

>     '<p class="readmore"><a href="%(url)s">read more after the break...</a></p>'

> When the entry is being shown in an index with other entries, then the `readmore_breakpoint` text is replaced with this text. This text is done with HTML markup.

> Variables available:

> - `%(url)s` - the full path to the story
> - `%(base_url)s` - base_url
> - `%(flavour)s` - the flavour selected now
> - `%(file_path)s` - path to the story (without extension)

> Note

> This template is formatted using Python string formatting—not Pyblosxom template formatting!

## Usage

For example, if the value of `readmore_breakpoint` is `"BREAK"`, then you could have a blog entry like this:

    First post
    <p>
      This is my first post.  In this post, I set out to explain why
      it is that I'm blogging and what I hope to accomplish with this
      blog.  See more below the break.
    </p>
    BREAK
    <p>
      Ha ha!  Made you look below the break!
    </p>

## Usage with rst_parser

Since the rst_parser parses the restructured text and turns it into HTML and this plugin operates on HTML in the story callback, we have to do a two-step replacement.

Thus, instead of using BREAK or whatever you have set in `readmore_breakpoint` in your blog entry, you use the break directive:

    First post

    This is my first post.  In this post, I set out to explain why
    it is that I'm blogging and what I hope to accomplish with this
    blog.

    .. break::

    Ha ha!  Made you look below the break!

## History

This is based on the original readmore plugin written by IWS years ago. It’s since been reworked.

Additionally, I folded in the rst_break plugin break directive from Menno Smits at http://freshfoo.com/wiki/CodeIndex .

## License

Plugin is distributed under license: MIT

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