Look at PRDistribution&gt;&gt;postTickerWidget<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 February 2012 09:28, Damien Cassou <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:damien.cassou@gmail.com">damien.cassou@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:16 AM, sergio_101 &lt;<a href="mailto:sergiolist@village-buzz.com">sergiolist@village-buzz.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>

&gt; on the front page of my pier site, i would like to automatically<br>
&gt; display an abbreviated (say, 1000 characters) of the latest blog<br>
&gt; story..<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; anyone have any idea on how i would do this? say, grab the newest<br>
&gt; child of the blog component..<br>
<br>
</div>there is already a component which shows you the first (maybe 100)<br>
characters of the last (maybe 5) posts. I think it comes by default<br>
with Pier-Blog and is also deployed in a typical Pier installation.<br>
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Damien Cassou<br>
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