lost with ditto - show latest news item on front page

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mmjaeger Reply #1, 19 years, 7 months ago
Hello,

I’d like to show the latest news item -> one single news on the front page - this is what I have:
```
[!Ditto? &startID=`8` &summarize=`1` &total=`1` &trunc=`false` &paginate=`false` &dateFormat=`%d. %B %Y` &placeholder=`ditto_object` !] 

<div class="resume">[+content+]<p><a href="[~[+id+]~]" title="[+longtitle+]">[...]</a></p></div>
```
the item is shown on the front page but it doesn’t show the full content - I’m always getting a "Read more..." link - however, I’d like to show the full content with no truncation at all.

hope somebody can help.

thank you in advance for your input.
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bocmaxima Reply #2, 19 years, 7 months ago
Quote from: mmjaeger at Feb 11, 2007, 03:02 AM
Hello,

I’d like to show the latest news item -> one single news on the front page - this is what I have:
[!Ditto? &startID=`8` &summarize=`1` &total=`1` &trunc=`false` &paginate=`false` &dateFormat=`%d. %B %Y` &placeholder=`ditto_object` !] <div class="resume">[+content+]<p><a href="[~[+id+]~]" title="[+longtitle+]">[...]</a></p></div>
the item is shown on the front page but it doesn’t show the full content - I’m always getting a "Read more..." link - however, I’d like to show the full content with no truncation at all.

hope somebody can help.

thank you in advance for your input.
Try editing the trunc option inside the snippet code? Set the value to 0 instead of 1.

My code for Ditto is only
```
[!Ditto?startID=`[(site_start)]` &tpl=`blog` &filter=`id,21,2` &dateFormat=`%b-%d-%Y %I:%M%p`!]
```
With the filter to leave off my RSS feed, and my posts dont truncate.