This is a guest post from Tom Maiaroto of ExpandTheRoom. In this post he explains how to set the "Read More" on your Joomla frontpage to appear after a certain number of characters. This is useful to keep a standard appearance for your articles when you have a large number of people submitting content.
This post grew out of comment that Tom made on our original discussion about the "read more" on Joomla’s frontpage.
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