CB Activity, comments and likes for EasyBlog/Articles posts and Activity Stream

Took an additional look at article handling and looks like I had already implemented media handling. Below is an article for example.

 

The contents are the content before the readmore break. The image is the article assigned image. Below is the contents after expanding the automatic Read More functionality built into CB Activity.

 

Notice the image displays fine which was just a media insert. What issues are you having exactly with article rendering?

Thanks,

the activity should display the content for the readmore element and generate a read more link taking user to the article page.That's planned for a future release, but it might be more doable now. I was quite limited by Joomla 3 and older releases so will take a look at Joomla 4/5 APIs and see if it's more feasible to implement this.

If there is a chance for such a change in the short term, it would be extremely welcome. A link to read more would make it less critical to render the entire content of the article for the time being.

Please open a separate topic regarding your hashtag issue and detail in what ways they're not working for you.

I will.

P.S. Images are there, but try with emeded video in article, it's not working for me.
P.S.2 In my posts I use readmore article, for a better preview of the category. This causes the activity to drop that article without adding a readmore link.
 

Ok, I believe I see the possible issue. Currently the article is being ran through CBs filtering, which it should not in this activities case. Will be removing that and it should render the article untouched.

The Read More feature in CB Activity is just a toggle to ensure the content doesn't overflow too much. Joomla read more isn't integrated as it's not necessary since clicking the title will take you to the article.

The Read More feature in CB Activity is just a toggle to ensure the content doesn't overflow too much. Joomla read more isn't integrated as it's not necessary since clicking the title will take you to the article.

Unfortunately, it is sometimes the case that it is not at all obvious that an article has a further part, which is why I am of the opinion that the linke read more is necessary even though technically you can get to the article via the title. My users are non-technical, they need to be clearly shown that there is a further part they can read.

article with read more


article as activity

I don't know how to add images to this post, so I'm adding them as attachments.

Will review adding output of the read more button, but it's still likely to be behind the Show More toggle, which is not going to be removed to prevent streams from expanding drastically. Again, this is template driven so you can customize it to display however you like if necessary. I can provide instructions on how to override its template file if you like.

Will review adding output of the read more button, but it's still likely to be behind the Show More toggle, which is not going to be removed to prevent streams from expanding drastically.

I think you are right that the activity should have a limited size with the possibility to expand as it works now. I also think that when it is expanded, if the article is split, and the introduction is displayed then there should also be a read more link.Simply put, both solutions are needed. I hope I have convinced you, because at the moment, not reading some content in my case can lead to serious consequences and, because of the category preview, I do not want to not use readmore in articles. Users are lazy, I don't want to rely on their intuition alone...

I can provide instructions on how to override its template file if you like.

If I can overwrite this and put the read more link in the activity in place of the original one, please give me instructions. However, please think about whether what I have written does not make sense to implement it officially at least as an option in the future.