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Two different sections with two different forms on front page
Hi Textpatterners,
I want to put two different types of posts on the front page (full articles and “tumbles”), just like daringfireball.net or ma.tt.
I was wondering if i can do automatically this without overriding the form for every tumble.
Thanks,
Aaron
Last edited by aarplane (2008-07-23 22:12:01)
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Re: Two different sections with two different forms on front page
Hi Aaron,
You have to do some differentiation between a full article and a tumble.
For that, you could:
- publish them to different sections (section “articles” and section “tumbles”)
- then, in your article form, use
<txp:if_article_section name="articles">...code for full articles...</txp:if_article_section><txp:if_article_section name="tumbles">...code for tumbles...</txp:if_article_section>
- then, in your article form, use
- similarly, publish them to the same section (“articles”) but apply a different category for tumbles.
- then, in your article form:
<txp:if_article_category name="tumbles">...code for tumbles <txp:else />... code for full articles</txp:if_article_category>
- then, in your article form:
- similarly, create a custom field and fill it if the post is a tumble.
- then, in your article form:
<txp:if_custom_field name="tumble">...code for tumbles...<txp:else />...code for full articles...</txp:if_custom_field>
- then, in your article form:
- or use the override form :)
Last edited by maniqui (2008-07-23 22:46:35)
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Re: Two different sections with two different forms on front page
maniqui wrote:
Hi Aaron,
You have to do some differentiation between a full article and a tumble.
For that, you could:
- publish them to different sections (section “articles” and section “tumbles”)
- then, in your article form, use
<txp:if_article_section name="articles">...code for full articles...</txp:if_article_section><txp:if_article_section name="tumbles">...code for tumbles...</txp:if_article_section>- similarly, publish them to the same section (“articles”) but apply a different category for tumbles.
- then, in your article form:
<txp:if_article_category name="tumbles">...code for tumbles <txp:else />... code for full articles</txp:if_article_category>- similarly, create a custom field and fill it if the post is a tumble.
- then, in your article form:
<txp:if_custom_field name="tumble">...code for tumbles...<txp:else />...code for full articles...</txp:if_custom_field>- or use the override form :)
Thanks maniqui! It was bugging me for a while. The first method with the sections is what I wanted. I was having a brain lapse, and didn’t even think about using conditional tags.
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Re: Two different sections with two different forms on front page
Or use the TXP plug-in asv_tumblelog.
- Uses its own section for the tumblelog
- Allows to import RSS feed items as articles
- Every feed can have its own default category, keywords and form
- Possibility to write a new tumblelog entry via bookmarklet
A nice alternative!
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