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I have a bunch of articles, and I would like to display a different one each day in an order that I specify ahead of time — not randomly. How do I do it?
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Set the publication date to the date when you want to show the article and use limit=“1” in the txp:article tag to show just one article.
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That would, I believe, preclude the article from showing up at all until the specified date. What if I wanted people to be able to read the articles at any time if they navigated to various categories, but have one of those articles show up on the front page as a featured article? Is there a way, perhaps, that I could rotate through them on a daily basis?
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You could set the day of year as a value of a custom field (named customfield1) and use the article_custom list to show a list of just one article that matches the current day of year, using asy_wondertag:
<txp:asy_wondertag><txp:article_custom limit="1" customfield1="<txp:php>echo date('z');</txp:php>" /></txp:asy_wondertag>In the upcoming TXP 4.0.7, it could be done like this:
<txp:article_custom limit="1" customfield1='<txp:php>echo date(''z'');</txp:php>' />Last edited by ruud (2008-09-04 21:23:06)
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Thanks. I’ll give it a try.
Mark
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txp:custom_list?
Did you mean txp:article_custom?
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Yes, I’ll update the example in my post.
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Strangely enough, the asy_wondertag plug-in is not listed at Textpattern Resources. I had to hunt it down in the forums.
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