Just to keep everyone up to date, The Little Book of Elements CMS is currently sitting at 90 pages (!). I’ve got 7 Punch List things to finish as well as another full editing pass on it. Dan/Ben/Tom have a copy and are looking at it. My hope is that we can get this thing ready for the public in the …

You’re going to see me about to call @elementsbot for something. This example is in the book. How do I show just the first 200 characters of item.body when using twig in the CMS?

Ah, a classic case of “how do I trim this down?”! In Twig, you can use the slice filter to get just the first 200 characters of item.body. Here’s how you can do it: {{ item.body|slice(0, 200) }} This will give you a nice, neat preview of your content. If you want to make it even fancier, you can a…

@thominator I’ve had a quick scan through and the content looks really great! I’d still love for it to be part of the CMS docs :wink: Seems silly for us to re-invent (or rewrite) the wheel!

It would be lovely to see the book extended to cover “Related Items” in the CMS as I find that particularly inscrutable!

Can you give us chapter lists? Do you have info on RSS setup and implementation? Thanx :slight_smile: Mike

[image] curlypaws: It would be lovely to see the book extended to cover “Related Items” in the CMS as I find that particularly inscrutable! Yes, it’s a tough thing to get your head around. I want to see how the basic book shell works first.

[image] MichaelDroste: Can you give us chapter lists? Just download the book, it’s free after all. [image] MichaelDroste: Do you have info on RSS setup and implementation? I do the most simple version of RSS in the book (enable it and call it feed.xml). That appears to work with the r…

I didn’t want to impose… wanted to buy :slight_smile:

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