Sweet, thanks guys for all your help! I got lots to read up on now :)
On 08/11/2010, at 23:22, Jim Gay wrote: > I'm about to announce a re-release of featured_pages, but that's not > what you want here. > I'm not sure why you have a 'contact us' page under articles, but you > might have your reasons. > > Using featured_pages would require a lot of manual labor. > What you want is for it to be automatic. > > Just use the <r:if_url> or <r:unless_url> tags. > > You can do something like this: > > <r:find url="/articles"> > <ul class="list2"> > <r:children:each order="asc" limit="20" > > <r:unless_url matches="^contact-us$"> > <li> > > The wiki has a lot of great content > https://github.com/radiant/radiant/wiki/Conditional-Tags > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Rachel Soma <[email protected]> wrote: >> Either make sure that only pages you want pulled in are under the url you're >> pointing at (why is your contact us page under /articles ?) or look into >> featured pages >> https://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-featured_pages-extension to select >> particular pages for display only. >> >> -- >> Rachel >> >> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Obi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Sweet, thanks Rachel, I'll definitely check out that extension. >>> So far I've gotten the following code to do what I want: >>> <r:find url="/articles"> >>> <ul class="list2"> >>> <r:children:each order="asc" limit="20" > >>> <li> >>> <h3><r:title /></h3> >>> <p class="excerpt"><r:content part="excerpt" /></p> >>> <p><a href="<r:url />">Read this article</a></p> >>> </li> >>> </r:children:each> >>> </ul> >>> </r:find> >>> What would I need to add to this so that Radiant only pulls pages that >>> have excerpts (to stop it pulling things like "contact us" pages or menu >>> pages etc.? >>> Thanks! >>> On 08/11/2010, at 20:33, Rachel Soma wrote: >>> >>> Use a page part and call that if you want to choose the excerpt or you can >>> use truncate https://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-truncate-extension to >>> take the first X characters from the article and, well, truncate them. >>> >>> -- >>> Rachel >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Obi <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks Joel, I had no idea that was in there! >>>> The code you sent me provides a list of links, is there anyway to format >>>> it so that it shows a small excerpt for each link, and keeps the site >>>> formatting styles (header1,2 etc.)? >>>> Basically so it would look like this: >>>> http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3228/screenshot20101108at191.jpg >>>> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated >>>> On 08/11/2010, at 17:41, Joel Oliveira wrote: >>>> >>>> It's built in. >>>> <r:find url="/news"><!-- or blog, articles, whatever --> >>>> <ul> >>>> <r:children:each order="asc" limit="20" > >>>> <li> >>>> <p><r:link /></p> >>>> <p class="excerpt"><r:content part="excerpt" /></p> >>>> </li> >>>> </r:children:each> >>>> </ul> >>>> </r:find> >>>> >>>> This is off the top of my head so I'm not 100% sure that will work. But >>>> it's close. >>>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Obi <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone know of an extension that will allow me to automatically >>>>> display recent articles with a title and a small excerpt? >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > > -- > Jim Gay > Saturn Flyer LLC > http://www.saturnflyer.com > 571-403-0338
