How do you limit the length of feeds?

  • Resolved xprt007

    (@xprt007)


    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hi there
    I do not visit this site very often, but it seems either the last plugin update makes SOME feeds I get from the BBC & Voice of America in the side-bar way too long, which was not the case in the past, when I had just a teaser like SOME of the articles on that page show. That makes the site way too long scrolling from top to bottom.
    I went to settings, but do not see where to limit the length other than that of the title. I am using the free version.

    Could someone help?

    Thank you in advance and for the great plugin.

    Regards

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  • Plugin Support Vytis

    (@bvytis)

    Hi @xprt007,

    I’m sorry for missing this thread.

    Yes, there is an option to set a limit for characters of the title here (Item Options) – https://vertis.d.pr/iObLFk

    Let us know if it doesn’t work – thanks!

    Thread Starter xprt007

    (@xprt007)

    Hi there
    Thank you for the response, which I also noticed late, because I thought I’d not get one.
    In your response you say:

    Yes, there is an option to set a limit for characters of the title here (Item Options)

    Actually the title for the problematic VOA feed https://www.voanews.com/api/z-$otevtiq is OK. The problem is with the TEASER, which shows the complete text, instead of a short teaser, like it does with a BBC RSS feed => https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/africa/rss.xml.
    I think your solution at the above link is for title length.

    This is the setting I have in the widget sidebar block:

    Trim the title of the item after X characters. A value of 0 will remove the title.

    set to => 140.

    Once again, the problem is specifically with the above VOA RSS feeds, not with RSS feeds from other sources, which respectfully and automatically keep the TEASER short.

    So am I missing on a setting that can help force the length of this VOA feed TEASER? If possible, please try it out to see what I mean. VOA is a safe US government owned international broadcast radio site.

    Thank you in advance

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