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#1 2007-06-30 00:52:06

hhriebe

New Member

From: West Vancouver, BC, Canada

Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 8

Front page should show sticky, not live articles

Excuse me if this is in the FAQ or the forum, but I have searched and not found anything useful.

I want my site to have a landing page as the default page (i.e. for “www.site.com”), which is Txp’s front page. So I have a sticky article in it’s own section, set that to appear on the front page and wow Txp goodness makes it happen! Except that my journal/blog/live entries also appear, which I don’t want. Searching around I did some several possibilities:

1. Take the journal entries off the front page (Front Page = No for their section). Great! Except now nothing shows up when I try listing the articles in a category. Viewing the debug output, the SQL query excludes all the “front page = no” sections from the category search. Bummer.
2. As suggested in the FAQ, suppress the live articles with if_article_list. Beautiful! But now search results won’t show up either, since Front Page, Search, Categories are all viewed through the default section – so suppressing the list output isn’t a good idea.

So I’ve been going around in circles for quite some time and I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t completely remove the live articles from the front page, without losing other functionality. Actually I did plan to have excerpts on the front page, but in a sidebar. But now I’m concerned that when I list the articles in a category, they’ll end up as excerpts in the sidebar too since their both just lists of live articles using the same section and therefore the same page template.

Have I missed a magical combination somewhere? How can I take control of my site’s default page?

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Henning Riebe
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#2 2007-06-30 02:21:53

Mary

Sock Enthusiast

Registered: 2004-06-27

Posts: 6,236

Re: Front page should show sticky, not live articles

• FAQ: ‘sticky’
• Textbook: article
• Textbook: if_search
• Textbook: if_category

#3 2007-06-30 03:06:44

hhriebe

New Member

From: West Vancouver, BC, Canada

Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 8

Re: Front page should show sticky, not live articles

I was about to say that I had already read all that, when I thought, “okay, I must have missed something in if_category” – example 2 in the Textbook article does the trick! Now I can create a different look for the front page articles and “list all posts for category x” even though they’re both going through the default page. I already used if_search to do the same thing, but missed that if_category without a name would differentiate between category and non-category pages.

Many thanks!

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Henning Riebe
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