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Article listing, but with the first article featured
On my article listing page, I want to feature the latest article at the top and then list the remaining articles. I initially achieved this using:
- for the first article:
<txp:article limit="1">, and - for the listing of subsequent articles:
<txp:article offset="1">.
Everything worked well until pagination kicked in. Then what happens is this:
- results page 1: article 1 featured, articles 2-11 listed,
- results page 2: article 2 featured, articles 12-21 listed,
- results page 3: article 3 featured, articles 22-26 listed,
- results page 4: article 4 featured, no more articles to list, and
- so on. Yes, this continues until the last article has been the featured one.
What I really want to do is to feature the very latest article on all results pages, with pagination of the remaining continuing as expected.
You can see this in action here >== thesamaras.com/blog
I guess I assumed that <txp:article limit="1"> applied the limit attribute to all articles, rather than just the list currently being acted on.
I know that I can get going with some plugins to identify which page of results I’m on and modify the results accordingly. But before going down that track is there a way to achieve this using core Textpattern functionality?
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Re: Article listing, but with the first article featured
I’m a bit rusted but I think you could do:
- for the featured article on every page:
<txp:article_custom section="blog" limit="1" />(I’m assuming your articles are assigned to a blog section) - for the rest (listing of subsequent articles):
<txp:article offset="1">.
I think that should be enough. No need to apply any kind of conditional logic.
But if the above doesn’t work, then I think a combination of <txp:variable />, <txp:if_variable> and <txp:page_url /> could do the trick.
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Re: Article listing, but with the first article featured
maniqui wrote:
I’m a bit rusted but I think you could do:
Yes, that should work. The offset for the pagination is calculated with the formula:
x = offset + pageby(pg - 1)So, if you set the offset to one, it will skip the first result (the most recent article with the default sorting criteria).
Last edited by Gocom (2013-08-07 19:14:31)
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Re: Article listing, but with the first article featured
Perfect thank you!
All I had to do was feed article_custom with the current section and it works – that’s because I put my articles into either blog or trips.
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