Change code to expand blog entry on Shopify Couture theme (Django?) - blogs

Question

Hi does anyone know how to update the code below so that blog 'excerpts' are fully expanded with full text and image/video removing the need to click through?
Thanks,
David
div id="blog" class="clearfix">
{% paginate blog.articles by settings.pagination_limit %}
<div class="more-info clearfix">
<span class="upper">{{ blog.title }}</span>
<span class="lower">{{ blog.articles_count }} {{ blog.articles_count | pluralize: 'Article', 'Articles' }}</span>
</div>
{% for article in blog.articles %}
<div class="article clearfix">
<div class="content">
<h4>{{ article.title }}</h4>
{{ article.content | strip_html | truncatewords:70 }}
</div>
</div> <!-- /.article -->
{% endfor %}
</div> <!-- /.main -->
{% include 'sidebar' %}
</div> <!-- /.articles -->
{% include 'pagination' %}
{% endpaginate %}
</div> <!-- /#blog -->
{% include 'featured-products' %}

Answer 1

Aha! It’s written with Liquid (http://liquidmarkup.org/). The truncatewords method takes the article’s content and shortens it to a maximum of 70 words. Removing that method call should fix the problem. There’s also a strip_html method that seems to remove any HTML from an article’s content. If there’s any HTML in the blog post that displays images or videos, this method may be to blame for removing them. This may fix your problem:
<div id="blog" class="clearfix">
{% paginate blog.articles by settings.pagination_limit %}
<div class="more-info clearfix">
<span class="upper">{{ blog.title }}</span>
<span class="lower">{{ blog.articles_count }} {{ blog.articles_count | pluralize: 'Article', 'Articles' }}</span>
</div>
{% for article in blog.articles %}
<div class="article clearfix">
<div class="content">
<h4>{{ article.title }}</h4>
{{ article.content }}
</div>
</div> <!-- /.article -->
{% endfor %}
</div> <!-- /.main -->
{% include 'sidebar' %}
</div> <!-- /.articles -->
{% include 'pagination' %}
{% endpaginate %}
</div> <!-- /#blog -->
{% include 'featured-products' %}