This documentation is very short and currently only presents the features of the module. Once I'll get some free time, I'll finish setting up this website (which isn't ready yet as you can see), and then will make a proper usage guide. Thanks for your patience, don't hesitate however to leave a message if you're having difficulties/queries
Ability to (re)create your content's teasers
Teasers are trimmed versions of your nodes' content that will be used in the frontpage to provide to your visitors a summary of the article/story/page/etc. You can modify the length of your teasers in administer >> settings >> posts, however only content posted or updated from that moment on will be affected.
This might be annoying to some of us, therefore I created a simple module that will extend the administer >> settings >> posts page and provide some more options regarding teaser management that will allow you to retrimm all the content of your website. Since websites tend to fill up rather quickly, the number of nodes and their respective size becomes quickly an issue when you wish to trimm them all. Therefore, you are given 2 options :
- You can define the number of nodes to trimm by setting a range. This range isn't in any way related to the nodes' id, it's just a simple way of telling I want the nodes 0 to 50 to be trimmed (as stored in the database, but you don't need to bother with that). In order to get an idea of how much work there is to do, the module gives you the total amount of nodes you have.
- As I said earlier, teasers are used in frontpage, therefore trimming content that won't ever make it to your main page is, well, useless (as long as you don't change your mind and decide to promote it, but if you do so, you'll most probably edit your node by hand, and drupal will update your teaser for you). Therefore, you can only trimm nodes that are promoted1. Once again, you will be given the number of nodes that are concerned.
Define teaser length for each content type
It is also possible, to set a teaser length for each content type you have. For instance if your default teaser length is 200 characters you might want to have teasers of 400 characters for your stories (content type story). That isn't possible in drupal as it is, you can however with this module to achieve such a task.
Future
This is a very basic first version, new features will be added (if needed) in the future, depending on the feedback and requests I get. Then, I might take a look at cron and see if I can make something out of this, a batch process maybe.
Notes
1 promoted doesn't necessarily means that it will be on front page, since you can limit the number of nodes that are to be listed on the main page ; that is why you can also trimm only the nodes that actually are on the main page
