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Exclude a category from txp:article
Or txp:custom_article for that matter. I’ve been trying a few different ways to simply output a sidebar with short articles in a “quick links” category. The best technique seems to be txp:article_custom category=“quick-links”, etc. But now I’m just puzzling how to exclude these articles from the home page main article listing. This is quite trivial (if unaesthetic) to do in Wordpress so I thought it’d be a doddle with Textpattern — particularly given how hard it is to output multiple ‘loops’ on the one page with Wordpress. But there doesn’t seem to be any exclusion facility in the default tags.
I guess some kind of conditional might do the trick? I’m not keen on a plugin, as I’m using a fair number already. What am I missing?
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#2 2008-04-05 08:12:32
- els
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Re: Exclude a category from txp:article
You could assign the ‘quick links’ articles to a section of their own, and set that section to not be displayed on the front page. Use <txp:article_custom /> to call them in the sidebar.
Alternatively, you could use a conditional in your article form for the front page articles:
<txp:if_article_category name="quick-links">
<!-- do nothing -->
<txp:else />
here the content of your article form
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Re: Exclude a category from txp:article
Ah, that might do the trick. Thanks.
Anyone know if exclusions are on the horizon? They’re pretty handy to have.
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Re: Exclude a category from txp:article
Instead if excluding, you could only include the categories you want. Although I agree that an exclude tag would come in handy
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Re: Exclude a category from txp:article
I agree, and thats why an exclude=“comma seperated list” would come in handy ;)
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Re: Exclude a category from txp:article
This is where an where attribute comes in handy, where you can add something to the where part of the SQL query, otherwise we’d get exclude_section, exclude_category, exclude_author, exclude_id, exclude_something_else and the list of attributes explodes.
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#8 2008-04-06 03:23:16
- Logoleptic
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Re: Exclude a category from txp:article
There may be a plugin that offers selective category exclusion. I could swear I’ve seen such a thing on Textpattern Resources.
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Re: Exclude a category from txp:article
I had a skim through the Category category on Textpattern resources but didn’t come up with anything. I do find sometimes that new plugins aren’t always immediately categorised correctly there, though.
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