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    Default A question about blog posts

    There are several members who post a small intro for each post. That tiny bit is all that you can see on the blog feed but when you click on the title you can read more of the entry.

    I'd like to know how that is done so that I can stop littering the blog feed with ugly walls of text.

    Can anyone help me out?

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    Default Re: A question about blog posts

    It utilizes a glitch in the way the forum interprets HTML code the symbols < and > are used to indicate HTML code, so if you just use the first < the software doesn't quite know what to do with it and in certain views hides everything that comes after it until there is a closing > and then text after the closing > will be displayed.

    HOWEVER!

    Using HTML in the blogs is a permissions thing. It requires 1000 posts and one year of membership. https://forums.longhaircommunity.com...ad.php?t=68519

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    Default Re: A question about blog posts

    Quote Originally Posted by neko_kawaii View Post
    It utilizes a glitch in the way the forum interprets HTML code the symbols < and > are used to indicate HTML code, so if you just use the first < the software doesn't quite know what to do with it and in certain views hides everything that comes after it until there is a closing > and then text after the closing > will be displayed.

    HOWEVER!

    Using HTML in the blogs is a permissions thing. It requires 1000 posts and one year of membership. https://forums.longhaircommunity.com...ad.php?t=68519

    Oh, okay cool! Thanks for the info! I'll save it for a year from now.

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    Default Re: A question about blog posts

    I have been here so long, and never even knew that was a thing.
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    Default Re: A question about blog posts

    Quote Originally Posted by neko_kawaii View Post
    It utilizes a glitch in the way the forum interprets HTML code the symbols < and > are used to indicate HTML code, so if you just use the first < the software doesn't quite know what to do with it and in certain views hides everything that comes after it until there is a closing > and then text after the closing > will be displayed.

    HOWEVER!

    Using HTML in the blogs is a permissions thing. It requires 1000 posts and one year of membership. https://forums.longhaircommunity.com...ad.php?t=68519
    I asked this so long ago and just realized I can finally take advantage of it! Thank you so much for explaining how to use it!

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    Default Re: A question about blog posts

    I was going to ask this very question, but I found this thread with the answer. I wondered how can I post a blog with just a headline displayed on the main blog page, so if one wants to read it, they have to click on it. But is it true, I cannot use it (the < character) if Iīm not a member of at least 1 year yet? I only posted one blog entry so far, and I would like to post a second, but it is very picture heavy and I donīt want to spam the entire blog section and obliterate other memberīs post with my entry.

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    Default Re: A question about blog posts

    You can certainly type the < character in your blog post, but I doubt it'll do anything. However, please make your blog post anyway! Nobody will mind your pictures. We like pictures.

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    Thank you for the answer! Iīm not so sure if others will appreciate a looong page of pictures but maybe I will find the courage? If there isnīt any other way just yet.

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    I think you could put the pictures in the comments if you don't want them all showing in the post.
    But yeah. We like pictures.
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    Default Re: A question about blog posts

    I discovered I can post only 10 pictures in one entry, which isnīt way too much. That way I can split my 20 pictures that I wanted to post into two entries, and it fits nicely

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