i want my category page to display the first 20 words of the entry ...

say i have a category called blah and it has 10 entries ... i want the first 20 words and only those words to be displayed sort of like a little taste of whats there ... would someone please show me how to do this ... thx in advance for the help

a good example of what i'm trying to do can be found here

Well, MTEntryExcerpt will do what you are looking for, as long as your Weblog Config has the "Number of words in excerpt:" set to 20.

Otherwise, the trim_to global attribute can be used on any of the tags.

Kristine

This should do it too:

Thanks Maddy I should know better than to try and help when I'm distracted when another project I don't come up with the smart option first

fanx for the help ... can you tell me how i might add a "..." to the end of the 20 words

And, if you're a typesetting refugee like me you may use the entity for an ellipsis (that's what those 3 dots are called):

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It will space the dots out properly rather than scrunching them together the way just typing 3 periods does.

Sorry about that, sometimes can't help myself.

thx folks