Look at PRDistribution>>postTickerWidget

On 6 February 2012 09:28, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:16 AM, sergio_101 <sergiolist@village-buzz.com> wrote:
> on the front page of my pier site, i would like to automatically
> display an abbreviated (say, 1000 characters) of the latest blog
> story..
>
> anyone have any idea on how i would do this? say, grab the newest
> child of the blog component..

there is already a component which shows you the first (maybe 100)
characters of the last (maybe 5) posts. I think it comes by default
with Pier-Blog and is also deployed in a typical Pier installation.

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Damien Cassou
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