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Pull in a sticky article at top of category page
I want to dynamically pull in a sticky article at the top of a category page. The following works great on a section page, but does nothing on a category page:
<txp:article status="sticky" limit="1" />Any ideas for what else to try?
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Re: Pull in a sticky article at top of category page
I think if_category will be your friend…
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Hmm, I don’t see how to use txp:if_category to fix this. I can use that to pull in other stuff, but it doesn’t give txp:article the power to check for sticky articles assigned to the current category.
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Oh that’s different – what about something like:
<txp:if_category name='<txp:category />'>
<txp:article status="sticky" limit="1" />
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Re: Pull in a sticky article at top of category page
Or:
<txp:if_category>
<txp:article_custom status="sticky" limit="1" category='<txp:category />' />
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Would be nice if either of those worked, but they don’t for me!
Do they both work for you?
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Oh, I should mention I’m using rss_unlimited_categories. That could well be related.
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Never used that plugin so I don’t know. You could try and turn it off and see what happens with my code…
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Thanks so much for your help, Jonathan! You’ve definitely been a big hep in giving me a sense of where things are breaking.
The more I dig into this, the more it looks like this is related to rss_unlimited_categories. Which I need for other stuff .Grumble
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#10 2009-06-16 22:38:00
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Re: Pull in a sticky article at top of category page
Sorry in advance if I didn’t understand well but can’t you just use:
<txp:article_custom status="sticky" category="<txp:category />" section="<txp:section />" limit="1" />?
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Redbot, yes, thanks—I’m pretty sure that (and jstubbs’s examples) would work fine if I wasn’t using rss_unlimited_categories.
But with rss_unlimited_categories in play, neither txp:article_custom nor txp:article can make use of a category name (whether via txp:category or a static category name).
As best I can tell, I’ll need to use the rss_unlimited_categories_article_list tag. But the problem there is that it doesn’t seem to have a status attribute or otherwise be able to see sticky articles.
A conundrum indeed.
Last edited by floodfish (2009-06-16 22:50:28)
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#12 2009-06-16 23:03:08
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Re: Pull in a sticky article at top of category page
Oh, ok.
Unfortunately I never used rss_unlimited_categories so I can’t give you advice, sorry.
Anyway I’d have a look at smd_query (if you have a minimal mysql knowledge) which will probably help.
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