Update `Write a Blog Post` by adding excerpt suggestion.

[Dhruvi16]

Problem

In the new CCOS website, excerpts are extracted from the blog. So for proper and meaningful excerpts, we can update Write a Blog Post (content/community/write-a-blog-post/contents.lr) with suggestions for adding excerpt content in the blog.

Additional context

This is how excerpts look -

Implementation

• [ ] I would be interested in implementing this feature.

[kgodey]

Thanks for pointing this out, @Dhruvi16

[ritesh-pandey]

How do we plan to extract excerpt?

• Programmatically e.g. first few characters from post
• A new excerpt field in every post

[Dhruvi16]

Hey @ritesh-pandey! We have used Lektor's excerpt plugin and restricted it to the first 100 words of the first line of the body. Exactly this is how we are getting excerpt:

https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io-source/blob/6f61fa8004d030dc6f0b9c442921bb9a1d994eec/themes/vocabulary_theme/templates/blocks/recent-posts.html#L32

[noobkid2411]

Hi,@kgodey, @Dhruvi16 @dhruvkb I would like to work on this issue,can this be assigned to me? Also,could someone elaborate on how excerpts are currently being made and if you need a better programming tool for excerpts for individual posts or general guidelines?

[JeffyDave]

Hi , please can this be assigned to me @kgodey. I would love to work on this.

[kgodey]

@JeffyDave I'm not involved with CC open source work much any more, I'll defer on assignment to @TimidRobot or @possumbilities.

[possumbilities]

@JeffyDave Hi, I'm glad you're all working hard to find ways to contribute. We do appreciate it. ❤️

But, if you read through the Contribution Guidelines you can see that this issue is not currently ready to be worked on. I'd suggest you read the Contribution Guidelines through and hunt for Issues that fall within tags that indicate they're ready to be worked on :)

[Abdullahhh12]

can i contribute