Before/after 4.7 primer

etc · 2018-05-23 09:35:44

Textpattern 4.7 introduces important new features (like themes, global attributes etc) that deserve each a separate discussion. But it also offers its users easier ways to achieve some common tasks that we briefly describe here.

Don’t `pgonly` anymore

We need to display previous/next page links before the articles list:

Before

<txp:article pgonly="1" />
<txp:newer /> - <txp:older />
<txp:article />

After

<txp:newer /> - <txp:older />
<txp:article />

Say `not` to lame `<txp:else />`

We need to hide some text under some condition, say in some section:

Before

<txp:if_section name="about">
<txp:else />
    Not about section.
</txp:if_section>

After

<txp:if_section not name="about">
    Not about section.
</txp:if_section>

Be valueless

Most of Boolean attributes 1 values can be skipped now:

Before

<txp:section link="1" title="1" />

After

<txp:section link title />

Adopt `<txp:evaluate />`

We need to display a breadcrumb only when corresponding articles exist:

Before

<txp:variable name="articles" value='<txp:article />' />
<txp:if_variable name="articles" value="">
<txp:else />
    <txp:variable name="articles" />
    <txp:breadcrumb />
</txp:if_variable>

After

<txp:evaluate test="article">
    <txp:article />
    <txp:breadcrumb />
</txp:evaluate>

Enjoy `wraptag` new powers

We need to append a class pulled from some custom field:

Before

<txp:if_custom_field name="class"> class="<txp:custom_field name="class" />"</txp:if_custom_field>

After

<txp:custom_field name="class" wraptag=' class="<+>"' />

What else?

Please feel free to share if you discover something new!

Dragondz · 2018-05-23 10:49:00

Yeah really cool features for devs!

Thanks guys for the hard work.

etc · 2018-09-10 19:35:47

Grouping articles (and other lists) is straightforward in 4.7:

<txp:article break="div" breakclass="group" breakby="2">
    <article><txp:title /></article>
</txp:article>

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