@talksina@network there is no "read more" support yet. the plugin currently only uses the excerpt as a summary and sends the full content and the summary to the fediverse, so that the platform can decide what to show.
@pfefferle@network I'll try some more experiments using the excerpt field. It's worth experimenting! As this blog contains very long stories in it, having a full-length post on display especially for mastodon 500-character-long readers, would be uncomfortable.
@network@pfefferle Involving @informapirata in the discussion about post formats too, we were just talking about this in the Italian instance some minutes ago, we talked about how differently various #fediverse platforms treat posts and Informapirata said "I've decided to post just title and excerpt from #WordPress otherwise Mastodon messes up text and pics". And I replied "I'm in touch with Matthias Pfefferle to collect feedbacks about formats and improve it"
@pfefferle – In “block themes”, the “read more” is a Gutenberg block; in the “classic themes” it is a tag, anyways the main suggestion is to give bloggers the ability to control how, where and when the post will be truncated. Through “read more” block/tag, a certain number of characters/words, a single paragraph (the closure of a /p html paragraph tag), the post excerpt, whatever parameter could be implemented – I’m really sorry I’m not a coder, I can not go beyond suggestions.
@matze@talksina@network@informapirata is this something that should be an extra shortcode or should it be like: if there is a "read more" use that as excerpt, if not generate the excerpt?!?
@matze@talksina@network@informapirata I think the "fall back to excerpt" might make more sense, because you might not want to use "read more" on every post?!?
1. if excerpt is set, use that 2. if read-more is set use that 3. generate excerpt from content and use that
how does that sound?
the problem with a dedicated shortcode is, if you use it and have a post without read-more (maybe because the text is too short) it will show nothing. that's why I would prefer the fallback solution I mention above.
@pfefferle@matze Yes, I agree with this: if the plugin gets the excerpt, it displays the excerpt; if it detects the "read more" it posts the text before the "read more" block; and I'd also give an alternative of the shortcode. Such as: [ap_message] - blocks - [/ap_message] - PS I disconnected my blog and the other user from the thread as I found another incoherence in Fediverse-to-WordPress interaction but I'll let you know somewhere else.
@pfefferle@matze Yeah, this can be a good compromise. Then, regarding excerpt my question is: if I put a # hashtag or a @ mention in there, does ActivityPub get it as correct reference links, on Fediverse platforms? Using the "note" activity-object it didn't, with "wordpress format" I have yet to test