[#47260] - Module "Articles" shows "read more" always and not depending if article has "read more"
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- 5 Mar 2026
- Medium
- Build: 5.4-dev
- # 47260
What happened?
Hello everyone,
while browsing in Joomla 6, I came across the fact that the module "Articles - Newsflash (legacy)" is marked as outdated.
I use this for the blog view on the homepage and display the last 3 entries here.
Unfortunately, there is a small problem if you replace it with the module "Articles".
For longer texts, I use the separation into intro text and main text with the resulting "Read More" button.
However, not for short texts.
The previous module "Articles - Newsflash" is smart enough to display the button if needed, depending on whether it is used in the article.
The new module "Articles" can only do "either-or", so the "Read More" button is always displayed, even if the article does not use it.
Is there a solution for this?
Version
6.0
Expected result
The new module "Articles" sould display the "Read More" button iift the depending article has a "Read more" text.
Actual result
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System Information
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Additional Comments
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If you need this change now (or the proposed change is not accpeted) then you can either continue to use the Newsflash module as thats not going anywhere soon OR you can create a template override for the new articles module with the one line change that I made in the pull request
muhme
- | Status | New | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2026-03-05 10:18:58 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | muhme |
The issue is for 6.0 but as this module is intended to replace the existing content modules this is unexpected behaviour and I woujld call this a bug - hence I made the pr against 5.4 see #47263 and if accepted it will be upmerged to 6.0 as well