Textpattern CMS

#1 2008-08-06 15:47:20

WebKat

Member

Registered: 2007-01-16

Posts: 301

column of recent article excerpts from current category or section?

I’d like to have a sidebar on the right that shows the most recent, say, 5 articles in that category (or section, I haven’t decided which is better) with excerpts. I know how to specify a category when showing an article list manually, but I want it to detect what category/section the currently viewed article is in and display the proper list automatically.

There is probably a very simple way to do this, but I edit the txp code so rarely that I forget most of the details between times. Can someone help?

Also, is there a way of having at the bottom a list of links to “related articles” based on tags? Like say the 5 most recent articles with the best keyword match to the one you’re on?

I know these are noob questions but as I said I do this in spurts and forget everything between times :/

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WebKat

#2 2008-08-06 16:37:31

els

Moderator

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: column of recent article excerpts from current category or section?

Using asy_wondertag:

<txp:asy_wondertag>
<txp:article_custom section="<txp:section />" /> <!-- or category="<txp:category />" -->
</txp:asy_wondertag>

Check chh_related_articles for your second question.