Have you ever found yourself thinking. Man, that would be really easy to achieve in SharePoint 2010 with jQuery but I don’t want to edit / modify the master page or page layout. And I don’t want to use the messy solution of adding content editor web parts to all these pages?

I want a jQuery only solution? AND I want it to span all pages on a site or across a whole site collection?

Well here is a very easy way to have just that.

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Today a client needed a quick fix to truncate the blog posts on the home page of their SharePoint 2010 blog site.

Transforming the posts like so…

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Here is the quick and dirty on how I did just that.*
* note: this can also be done within XSLT without JavaScript, which I can blog about too, but like I said, this is quick with less chance for error.

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Do  you ever have days when you sit back, take a breath and ponder just how rudimentary SharePoint Designer can feel when compared with a real IDE?

I know I do and it’s this very thought that compelled me to search for an alternative. What I ended up with was a quick and easy setup that allows me to have code collapse,  better syntax highlighting and jQuery Intellisense when I need to do some serious JavaScript editing.

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One of the biggest features of SharePoint 2010 is the Office Ribbon. Whether you love it or hate it, it’s here to stay and eventually you will be faced with the choice of including the ribbon within your site branding. What can be edited and changed in the ribbon? Microsoft spent millions, if not billions of dollars to research and develop the ribbon so how much should we change?

Just because we can…does it mean we should?

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