Related posts text TOO SHORT

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  wordstodeeds · Member · Nov 14, 2013 at 8:11 am

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  The new “Related” feature is a good idea, but in practice more or less useless, because the text shown is not long enough to give any idea of what the post is about (and thus whether the reader wants to click through to it).
  Is there any way of extending the number of characters shown, and if not, when might that be possible?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  eurello · Staff · Nov 15, 2013 at 8:18 pm

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  Hi there – If you hover over each post, a tooltip appears with the entire post title and the first sentence or two.

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  wordstodeeds · Member · Nov 15, 2013 at 8:23 pm

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  Hi eurello, thanks for replying! Well that’s well hidden! I wonder how many blog readers will be like me and not think of doing that.

  The fact remains that loads of other platforms offer the “related posts” function but with at the very least the post title being immediately visible.

  Is that likely to be done/able to be reset?

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  eurello · Staff · Nov 15, 2013 at 8:28 pm

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  This is a new feature – I’ll pass your feedback along to the team that’s working on it, but I don’t know if that will be changed. :)

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  wordstodeeds · Member · Nov 15, 2013 at 8:29 pm

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  Thanks very much. I’m sure if they look around they will see that the “competition” allows more to be immediately visible. It makes sense really since the purpose is to increase click-throughs.