Some silly obvious questions for you guys

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I’ve put up a site very quickly - using a skeleton. It’s at www.thebpway.com

As you’ll see it’s a blog. I’ve added a content item on the front page but how do I get it to display the first x number of words or add a read more??

Also, where is the icon at the start of the title coming from - I cant seem to get rid of it

I’m doing all this via the /admin page … if that helps.

Cheers

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Truncate with Twig. https://learn.getgrav.org/themes/twig-filters-functions

{{ page.headers.title|truncate(5) }}
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thanks Ryan - I’ll figure it out. What about the icon at the start of the post title and how can I remove the menu items - I dont need them??

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It looks like you solved your problem?

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hi paul, not really. i’m struggling with grav. i’m a user not a developer and have some rudimentary skills in finding files and editing, but was hoping for something a little more ‘functional’. the thing is or the thing i’m finding, is the theme is really the barebones and nothing really follows through from theme to them

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If you “follow the path” that a theme has setup for you, things are simple.

When you start customizing things, like not wanting a menu at all, or changing the way the theme works, things require some sort of expertise or willingness to spend time tweaking (or hiring a developer to do it for you).

This is not a Grav-specific thing, but it’s true for any system.

I see you added === to the content, which is the summary delimiter, but the theme is not “picking it up”. That looks like a theme issue at first sight, so the best thing to do is report this on the theme repository issues list https://github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-theme-course-hub-bones/issues to start with.

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thanks. i’ve decided to just try with a new skeleton. so just removed everything and installed a new one to start playing. now i get a 500 internal server error. will investigate

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In case it’s useful, learn.getgrav.org/troubleshooting/internal-server-error