[Radiant] Adding "extended" content to existing page?

[Sean Cribbs]

Brian,

Yes, that is one of the basic things that the "Styled Blog" template 
does.  Essentially you have this on the page that only displays part of 
the article:

<r:children:each>
  ...
  <r:content />
  <r:if_content part="extended"><r:link>Read more...</r:link></r:if_content>
</r:children:each>

That loops through the child pages of the current page, displaying the 
"body" part (that's the <r:content /> tag), then a link if the 
"extended" page-part exists.  On the child page, you'd display both the 
"body" and "extended" parts.

Sean Cribbs
seancribbs.com

Brian Capouch wrote:
> Newb here.  Doing my best.  I've spent many hours trying to figure this 
> one out, so far w/o success.
>
> Is there any way to "extend" an article once it's written.
>
> By that, I mean to show only the first part of it and let the "Archive" 
> parent page print that part and then provide a "Read more" link.
>
> I used the default site provided with the gem install, and then edited 
> the resulting pages.
>
> I didn't notice until afterwards that while *new* child pages I create 
> under the main Articles page have both "Body" and "Extended" parts, the 
> existing pages (which I edited) did not.
>
> I'm confused as to who decides that gets put there, and how, and whether 
> it is changeable after the fact.
>
> Thanks for any pointers I might elicit.
>
> B.
>
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