Update Write a Blog Post by adding excerpt suggestion.

[Dhruvi16]

Problem

In the new CCOS website, excerpts are extracted from the blog. So for proper and meaningful excerpts, we can update Write a Blog Post (content/community/write-a-blog-post/contents.lr) with suggestions for adding excerpt content in the blog.

Additional context

This is how excerpts look -

Implementation

• I would be interested in implementing this feature.

[kgodey]

Thanks for pointing this out, @Dhruvi16

[ritesh-pandey]

How do we plan to extract excerpt?

• Programmatically e.g. first few characters from post
• A new excerpt field in every post

[Dhruvi16]

Hey @ritesh-pandey! We have used Lektor's excerpt plugin and restricted it to the first 100 words of the first line of the body. Exactly this is how we are getting excerpt:

creativecommons.github.io-source/themes/vocabulary_theme/templates/blocks/recent-posts.html

Line 32 in 6f61fa8

{{ post.body | excerpt | string | striptags() | truncate(100) }}

[Queen-codes]

Hi @TimidRobot , I’ve started working on this, and here’s what I’ve discovered:

Before adding the excerpt suggestion to the page, we should introduce an excerpt field in the contents.lr file for authors to manually add their excerpt. The code logic can then be updated to check for this excerpt, and if it’s not present, it will automatically truncate the first 100 words of the post.

Would you prefer I create a new issue for adding the excerpt field and modifying the logic, and then update this once that issue is resolved? Or should I go ahead with updating the page by adding the suggestion?