Have section list page show a single article?

agovella · 2019-05-27 18:58:38

I’m sure this is covered, but my Google-fu won’t pull it up.

Say you have a section: about.

And when someone visits /about, you want the visitor to see a specific article, “about my company” as well as a list of other articles in the about section.

I think the Textpattern question is: How do you show a specific article in the article list context?

colak · 2019-05-27 19:12:25

Hi,
check the code of our site on github, the particular template, linked to a section, more or less doing what you need. Regarding the list of articles, you could use either the related_articles or the article_custom tags.

jakob · 2019-05-27 19:58:09

Another very simple way to front a section with some (introductory) text that you have stored in an article at the top of a section landing page, e.g. in an article list context, is to use a sticky article. An example:

Write your About introduction, perhaps with its own heading, in an article and assign it to your about section. Set the status to sticky and then save it.
Write your other individual articles in the about section and save as regular live articles assigned to that section.
In your page template, you can then do:

<!-- your lead article heading and text -->
<txp:article status="sticky" limit="1">
    <h2><txp:title /></h2>
    <txp:body />
</txp:article>
<!-- the regular article list / individual article view -->
<txp:article />

… which means the normal txp:article tag responds as normal to the article_list context or individual_article context as before, but on a list page, the content of a single sticky article will be shown at the beginning.
txp:article on its own has status="live" as default, so you don’t risk having duplicate content. As the sticky article doesn’t have a permlink in it, it never has its own page and only shows on the section landing page.

etc · 2019-05-27 20:09:44

You can also abuse sections description if 255 chars suffice:

<txp:meta_description type="section" format="" escape="textile" />

arellanon · 2019-05-29 15:58:13

jakob wrote #318248:

Another very simple way to front a section with some (introductory) text that you have stored in an article at the top of a section landing page, e.g. in an article list context, is to use a sticky article. An example:

Write your About introduction, perhaps with its own heading, in an article and assign it to your about section. Set the status to sticky and then save it.

Write your other individual articles in the about section and save as regular live articles assigned to that section.

In your page template, you can then do:

...

… which means the normal txp:article tag responds as normal to the article_list context or individual_article context as before, but on a list page, the content of a single sticky article will be shown at the beginning.
txp:article on its own has status="live" as default, so you don’t risk having duplicate content. As the sticky article doesn’t have a permlink in it, it never has its own page and only shows on the section landing page.

I have never been able to figure out how to keep a certain article at the top of the Home Page. Sticky seems the obvious choice but that does not do it. I tried to figure out the above without luck. I just did a new install and want to get it right the first time. Any help?

etc · 2019-05-31 21:36:06

We should probably add <txp:article status="sticky" /> where appropriate to the default theme, to make it easier for new users: try to replace

                    <txp:if_variable name="front-page">
                        <!-- links by default to form: 'default.txp' unless you specify a different form -->
                        <txp:article limit="5" />

with

                    <txp:if_variable name="front-page">
                        <!-- links by default to form: 'default.txp' unless you specify a different form -->
                        <txp:article status="sticky" />
                        <txp:article limit="5" />

Then sticky articles should be displayed above the live ones.

philwareham · 2019-05-31 21:53:01

etc wrote #318332:

We should probably add <txp:article status="sticky" /> where appropriate to the default theme

Please raise an issue and I’ll make sure this gets added to the default theme. Thanks!

arellanon · 2019-05-31 22:22:01

Thank You! That worked. I have another question which is related. I want to but a sticky article at the top of the Home Page, right now I only know how to do that by having a section made for the article. That section ends up being a tag on the nav bar. How can I hide that section from the nav bar and still have the article on the Home Page?

arellanon · 2019-05-31 22:32:25

I appreciate the way you showed how to change the code!

etc wrote #318332:

We should probably add <txp:article status="sticky" /> where appropriate to the default theme, to make it easier for new users: try to replace

<txp:if_variable name="front-page">...

with

<txp:if_variable name="front-page">...

Then sticky articles should be displayed above the live ones.

p.

etc · 2019-06-01 12:49:21

arellanon wrote #318334:

How can I hide that section from the nav bar and still have the article on the Home Page?

You can add exclude="that_section_name" attribute to <txp:section_list /> in body_header misc form, awaiting a more convenient solution.

arellanon · 2019-06-01 13:20:56

Thank you again. Those were two issues that I always wanted but couldn’t figure out how to do.

Last edited by arellanon (2019-06-01 13:21:13)

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