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#1 2010-10-19 15:56:18

nix0rs

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Registered: 2010-10-19

Posts: 4

seperate Articles expandable menu

Hey guys! I need a little help here, I couldn’t find any answers here.
I have a fresh install of Textpattern, and one thing that bugs me because I can’t figure out how to change it is Articles menu link, when you click it, it expands and shows couple latest articles. I want to make Articles menu link non expandable and fetch those ‘recent articles’ and have them sitting by them selves.

example;

this is how it is:

Home
About
Contact
Articles (when clicked)
-article 1
-article 2
-article 3

this is what I need

Home
About
Contact
Articles (doesnt expand when clicked)

Recent: (non clickable)
-article 1
-article 2
-article 3

In advance, thank you! :)

#2 2010-10-19 16:52:44

els

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: seperate Articles expandable menu

This is the code generating the section menu:

        <txp:section_list default_title='<txp:text item="home" />' include_default="1" wraptag="ul" break="li">
            <txp:if_section name='<txp:section />'>&raquo;</txp:if_section>
            <txp:section link="1" title="1" />
            <txp:if_section name='<txp:section />'>
                <txp:article_custom  section='<txp:section />' wraptag="ul" break="li">
                    <txp:if_article_id>&rsaquo;</txp:if_article_id>
                    <txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
                </txp:article_custom>
            </txp:if_section>
        </txp:section_list>

Take out this part:

            <txp:if_section name='<txp:section />'>
                <txp:article_custom  section='<txp:section />' wraptag="ul" break="li">
                    <txp:if_article_id>&rsaquo;</txp:if_article_id>
                    <txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
                </txp:article_custom>
            </txp:if_section>

You can use that as your article list, or simplify it a bit more:

                <txp:article_custom wraptag="ul" break="li">
                    <txp:title />
                </txp:article_custom>

Last edited by els (2010-10-19 20:34:41)

#3 2010-10-19 17:22:18

nix0rs

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Registered: 2010-10-19

Posts: 4

Re: seperate Articles expandable menu

@Els, It completely removes the menu for some reason, but listing ‘recent posts’ works great. How can edit the font size of those by the way?

Thanks :)

#4 2010-10-19 18:19:27

uli

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From: Cologne

Registered: 2006-08-15

Posts: 4,315

Re: seperate Articles expandable menu

nix0rs wrote:

@Els, It completely removes the menu for some reason

You probably did it too fast and deleted the section tag and the current section index part with » altogether.

You should have this:

<txp:section_list exclude="nieuwsbrief" default_title='<txp:text item="home" />' include_default="1" wraptag="ul" break="li">
    <txp:if_section name='<txp:section />'>&raquo;</txp:if_section>
    <txp:section link="1" title="1" />
</txp:section_list>

Font sizes can be edited in Presentation > Styles.

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#5 2010-10-19 20:35:43

els

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: seperate Articles expandable menu

Hehe, I see I left something in there: exclude="nieuwsbrief" of course doesn’t belong in the default code, sorry about that ;)

#6 2010-10-19 20:39:43

uli

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From: Cologne

Registered: 2006-08-15

Posts: 4,315

Re: seperate Articles expandable menu

But it probably won’t hurt either :)

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#7 2010-10-20 22:49:44

nix0rs

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Registered: 2010-10-19

Posts: 4

Re: seperate Articles expandable menu

Yeap sorry my bad, I am just new to this code but thats not an excuse :P
Everything works great, thanks guys :)

Last edited by nix0rs (2010-10-20 22:50:03)