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#1 2006-02-14 07:32:32

camello

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From: Lisbon

Registered: 2006-01-15

Posts: 63

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A way to assign any sort of priority to the articles being displayed

I,

I’m, making a newspaper.

On my website www.diariocientifico.com, I have diferent kinds of Headlines (varying in size, image size, or text extension).

I want to assign articles a sort of “priority”, so an article which is a short importance small new, never get’s displayed on the most important Headline, and goes directly to the small headlines. And vice versa.

Is there any way of doing it? Maybe a way to assign any sort of priority to the articles being displayed.

Thanks

camello

#2 2006-02-14 11:46:44

Kossatsch

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From: St. Wolfgang

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Posts: 198

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Re: A way to assign any sort of priority to the articles being displayed

You could assign different sections to them… Section X displays on the front page, section Y won’t and so on…

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#3 2006-02-14 15:23:15

alexandra

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From: Cologne, Germany

Registered: 2004-04-02

Posts: 1,370

Re: A way to assign any sort of priority to the articles being displayed

you can use as well a customfields and sort your articles by this customfield
f. e. assign a for important, b or less important, c for even less improtant to a customfield and sort your articles by customfield and by date. so you get what you want.

#4 2006-02-14 22:20:17

zem

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-04-08

Posts: 2,579

Re: A way to assign any sort of priority to the articles being displayed

You’ll find a number of helpful techniques in the FAQ. You might have to use your imagination and combine several, depending on exactly what you’re trying to achieve.

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#5 2006-02-15 04:02:09

capa

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From: Montana, USA

Registered: 2005-09-10

Posts: 20

Re: A way to assign any sort of priority to the articles being displayed

I had a similar issue. Here’s how I resolved it:
http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?pid=85552
That organizes articles FIRST by date and SECONDLY by a flag I titled “important”.

Also, just the other day I decided I wanted to make an even more important category on top of the above structure. I did it this way:
http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=14616

That places an article in the “lead art” category at the top of the page no matter what.

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#6 2006-02-17 00:27:44

camello

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From: Lisbon

Registered: 2006-01-15

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Re: A way to assign any sort of priority to the articles being displayed

Thanks a lot to you all. I gess I’m going to try it all…

I’ll give you some feedback after I try it…

Now, I’m still trying to solve a form style problem, to wich I’ve bumped into (CSS discussion)…

Thanks

Camello

#7 2006-02-17 01:17:04

Mary

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Registered: 2004-06-27

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Re: A way to assign any sort of priority to the articles being displayed

Please don’t double-post. Just ask your questions in this forum, and you’ll get directed elsewhere if need be. :)

#8 2006-02-18 15:22:19

camello

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From: Lisbon

Registered: 2006-01-15

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Re: A way to assign any sort of priority to the articles being displayed

You’re right Mary. Sorry. Is that I was not sure in which theme to put my post…

Sorry

camello