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#1 2007-07-29 01:06:37
- WhiteDog
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Featured Section
Hi this should be a pretty simple answer, but I am trying to setup a featured section using
<txp:article_custom form=“featured” category=“featured” limit=“5” />
the form tag containing only <txp:body />
that works perfectly
the problem arises because i do not want the featured category to appear in my normal <txp:article limit=“5” /> tag
so I was hoping someone more savy than I could tell me how to exclude a category from the txp:article tag
thanks in advance!
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Re: Featured Section
At the moment, this requires a plugin (have a look on textpattern.org), because there’s no way with the standard TXP tags to create a list of 5 articles while at the same time excluding articles belonging to a specific category. Only one of those requirements can be filled at the same time (either limit 5 or the category exclusion).
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#3 2007-07-29 13:42:45
- els
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Re: Featured Section
WhiteDog wrote:
the problem arises because i do not want the featured category to appear in my normal <txp:article limit=“5” /> tag
so I was hoping someone more savy than I could tell me how to exclude a category from the txp:article tag
You can do this in your article form:
<txp:if_article_category name="featured">
<txp:else />
here your title and body tags etcetera
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#4 2007-07-29 14:04:48
- WhiteDog
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Re: Featured Section
ok so if i understand this
<txp:if_article_category name=“featured”>
(do nothing)
<txp:else />
<txp:title />
<txp:excerpt />
</txp:if_article_category>
would there be a way to limit the number of articles on the front page that way?
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#5 2007-07-29 14:06:20
- els
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Re: Featured Section
Just use limit="5" in your article tag?
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#6 2007-07-29 14:09:01
- els
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Re: Featured Section
Sorry, re-reading makes me think I misunderstood you. You just want to exclude 5 articles with category ‘featured’, right? Let me think about that.
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Re: Featured Section
What about a plug-in such as chh_article_custom or mem_article_custom instead of the standard <txp:article /> tag? Would that work?
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#8 2007-07-29 15:56:46
- WhiteDog
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Re: Featured Section
thanks els and thebombsite but I think I am confusing what I am trying to do.
all i basically want is the exclude=“featured” which you can use in <txp:category_list /> except I need it in <txp:article />
the chh_article_custom may do what I want.
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#9 2007-07-29 18:36:03
- els
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Re: Featured Section
Still not sure what you want to do exactly, but what if you create a form with my code above to use in attribute listform and use your regular form for attribute form in the article tag?
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