[Mediawiki-l] Transcluding only initial portion of an article

Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 13:04:00 UTC 2007


On 15/10/2007, Jack Eapen C <jackec at suntecgroup.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I want to display first para of an article on my home page box-featured
> article. Can I set some parameter like no. of characters or so, such
> that I can translude, say 100 chars from an article on the home page and
> then provide a "read more..." link?

Hi Jack,

You might find this extension useful:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion

I haven't used it myself so I can't vouch for it, but it's used on Wikisource.

cheers,
Brianna

-- 
They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:
http://modernthings.org/



More information about the MediaWiki-l mailing list