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Excluding articles based on a category being set
Hi all,
I’d like to be able to show specific articles on a page, based on a category not being set to a particular value – I suspect I’m going to have a moment of slapping hand to forehead, but how do I go about constructing an article form to do this?
To explain it a little further, I have a home page article that is shown when a category called ‘featured’ is set. I want to exclude all articles with a category of ‘featured’ appearing in a subsequent list of recent articles to avoid duplication.
You can see it here: http://byekick.com
Thanks in advance for your help…
Andrew
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#2 2009-12-16 22:14:05
- els
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Re: Excluding articles based on a category being set
In the article form:
<txp:if_article_category name="featured">
<txp:else />
// content here
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Re: Excluding articles based on a category being set
Els, that’s really helpful thanks – because I’ve been pulling through the articles that aren’t ‘featured’ by offsetting, so the if_article_category isn’t quite having the effect I need. The code currently looks like this:
<txp:if_article_category name="featured">
<txp:else />
<txp:article_custom form="journal.list" limit="1" offset="2" section="journal" />
</txp:if_article_category>Any tips on a more efficient/effective way of doing this?
Thanks again!
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#4 2009-12-16 22:36:13
- els
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Re: Excluding articles based on a category being set
I can’t imagine that is going to work…? Just add the if_article_category tags to your form ‘journal.list’ and remove the offset attribute from the article_custom tag.
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Re: Excluding articles based on a category being set
thanks again, Els! I need to have a bit of a think about how I’m pulling in each of the ‘recent’ (but not ‘featured’) articles in, but shifting the if_category conditional tag definitely improves things.
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