Integrate Textpattern in existing site

blogling · 2020-01-21 14:53:11

Ok, step by step I am starting to get the hang of it. Thanks for all your wise messages.

I am still trying to eliminate all the built in css but that will be sorted as well. External phps so far are running well.

A few things where I would be happy to be pointed to the correct references (I somehow have not figured out the documentation logic yet):

1. At the top of the page I currently have “Home” and “Articles” links. Where can I remove “Articles”?

2. How can I limit the number of articles on a page before the user should click “page 2” or whatever?

3. I would like to show only one or two paragraphs and then have a “more” link so people can read the full article if desired. Is there an existing command for this?

3. Textpattern has sections and inside articles it has categories. My general article structure will be:

A. For professionals
B. For consumers
C. Products

Inside consumers will be

1. Country information + subcategories (UK, Spain, France, etc.)
2. How-to hands on tips

How shall I manage this? With sections or categories?

And where can visitors to the page select from such lists (also when the page is viewed on mobile).

Any links would be helpful.

Thanks for your kind assistance

blogling

colak · 2020-01-21 15:37:02

Hi responses in between

Ok, step by step I am starting to get the hang of it. Thanks for all your wise messages.

I am still trying to eliminate all the built in css but that will be sorted as well. External phps so far are running well.

You could create a form without any css and then call that one.

1. At the top of the page I currently have “Home” and “Articles” links. Where can I remove “Articles”?

In Presentation>Forms>body_header there is

<txp:section_list default_title='<txp:text item="home" />' include_default wraptag="ul" break="">

Change that to

<txp:section_list default_title='<txp:text item="home" />' include_default exclude="articles,other-section,etc" wraptag="ul" break="">

2. How can I limit the number of articles on a page before the user should click “page 2” or whatever?

in the default install search for txp:article limit="5". Change the limit to your desired one.

3. I would like to show only one or two paragraphs and then have a “more” link so people can read the full article if desired. Is there an existing command for this?

You need <txp:excerpt /> but you will also need something like <h2><a rel="canonical" href="<txp:permlink />"><txp:title /></a></h2> which links to the title of the article.

3. Textpattern has sections and inside articles it has categories. My general article structure will be:

A. For professionals
B. For consumers
C. Products

Inside consumers will be

1. Country information + subcategories (UK, Spain, France, etc.)
2. How-to hands on tips

How shall I manage this? With sections or categories?

And where can visitors to the page select from such lists (also when the page is viewed on mobile).

Any links would be helpful.

Thanks for your kind assistance

As from the latest dev version this is very doable not only for the screen but also in the way that it will be reflected in the urls. If for example you have 3 sections called

For professionals
For consumers
Products

You can then create categories such as UK, Spain, France and the urls will become

site.tld/for-proffessionals/uk/

This will of course be an article list with all the articles under the particular section and category. Is this what you are looking for? If so, here is the current, yet to go live, work I am doing for one of my sites, which hopefully it will be of help to you.

blogling · 2020-02-14 11:47:54

Thank you Yiannis, today I am back at Textpattern. Your guidance is valuable.

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