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#1 2008-03-30 14:34:03

Ian Goldby

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 6

Hide page from article list?

How can I add one or more pages to a section but prevent these pages from appearing in the article list – either for that section or anywhere else?

I also need these special pages to be displayed with a different form to the usual form for that section.

The specific problem here is that I need a ‘Cancel’ page and a ‘Thanks’ page in the ‘shop’ section of a site that I am creating. I think they should be in the shop section because they are part of the shop. But every other page in the shop is a product, and these two special pages must not appear as products – for obvious reasons!

I got half way there by setting the special pages to ‘Hidden’, but then I couldn’t display them at all. When I went to http://mysite.com/shop/Thanks, I got a 404 error.

I also tried making them ‘Sticky’, although this doesn’t sound like the right thing to do because ‘Sticky’ implies something quite different to what I want. Anyway, I got a page, but the text of the article was missing and there was still no obvious way of changing the form used from the normal shop product form.

#2 2008-03-30 17:33:50

whaleen

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From: Portland

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 373

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Re: Hide page from article list?

To show a hidden article in that section you use the ‘status’ attribute.

<txp:article status="hidden" />

There are ther attributes for <txp:article />

Or show an article by ID:

<txp:article_custom id=12" />

Other attributes for <txp:article_custom />

To prevent articles form appearing in lists you could define categories for those lists <txp:recent_article category="apples,oranges" /> which would exclude categories not listed.

I would use different sections for what you are doing. But Textbook might have some fancy tag combos to do it your way. Or, there might be a Plugin.

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#3 2008-03-30 17:38:43

whaleen

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From: Portland

Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 373

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Re: Hide page from article list?

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#4 2008-04-06 20:18:01

Ian Goldby

Archived Plugin Author

Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 6

Re: Hide page from article list?

What a week! I’m sorry I haven’t been able to respond to this sooner.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve learned that status=“hidden” seems to be useful to display a hidden article only on the index page of the section. That’s because Textpattern (as far as I can tell) treats the URL for the hidden page as not existing and gives the 404 error. Makes sense, but not useful for what I want.

Status = sticky seems to hold more promise. The answer is as follows (inspired by This forum post):

<txp:if_individual_article>
  <txp:article form="static_article" status="sticky" />
  <txp:article form="shop_single" status="live" />
<txp:else />
  <txp:article limit="9" form="shop_list" />
</txp:if_individual_article>

If this is called in an individual article context then either:

1. The article is sticky so the ‘static_article’ form is used to display it
2. The article is live so the ‘shop_single’ form is used
   Otherwise for an article list the shop_list form used.

Seems to work for me.