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Blog Post Slug

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to change the field that generates the Blog Slug? I want to have a custom field in the CMS that is used to create custom urls for each blog,

I've tried a few different ways of doing this from what I can find in the docs but not had any luck getting it to work.

Cheers

Chris
Chris Bell

Chris Bell 0 points

  • 6 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

The slug generation is hardwired for the blog, as it's a crucial field.

You should be able to ignore it and use your own field for that purpose though.
Chris Bell

Chris Bell 0 points

6 years ago

I have added this to my blog

<perch:blog id="postURLCustom" type="text" label="URL"  hidden="true"/>
<perch:blog id="postSlugCustom" type="slug" for="postURLCustom" surpress="true" />

Then in the settings set my blog post path to "/blog/{postSlugCustom}" and slug format to "{postURLCustom}" (I've tried various combinations of the fields on the settings). The blog isn't picking anything up in the URL however It's just empty url like this "/blog/ "

I guess I'm doing something wrong but can't figure out what.

Thanks
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

In your page, are you then filtering based on that field? If not it'll be matching it against postSlug which will obviously fail.
Chris Bell

Chris Bell 0 points

6 years ago

No i'm not as not sure what you mean by filtering?

In my post_summary file I've changed the a tag to use the custom slug

<a href="<perch:blog id="postSlugCustom" />" rel="bookmark">
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

What code do you have on your page for displaying a post? It should be something like:

perch_blog_custom([
    'filter' => 'postSlugCustom',
    'match' => 'eq',
    'value' => perch_get('s'),
]);