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I have 2 blogs:

  1. News
  2. Reports

I'm working on a layout that renders a list of News in date order, but every 2 News posts I need to render a Report. The Reports themselves need to be in date order, but not in the context of the news posts.

eg.

  • News Post [May 2017]
  • News Post [May 2017]
  • Report [Feb 2017]
  • News Post [Apr 2017]
  • News Post [Mar 2017]
  • Report [Dec 2016]
  • News Post [Feb 2017]
  • News Post [Jan 2017]
  • Report [Nov 2016]

Do you think this be can achieved directly via templates or do you think I need to be using a callback on perch_blog_custom
Toby Martin

Toby Martin 1 points

  • 4 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

You can't do that directly with templates, no. The idea of multiple blogs is that they're silos.
Toby Martin

Toby Martin 1 points

4 years ago

Think I've nailed it:


     $blogData = perch_blog_custom([
          'skip-template' => true,
          'blog'          => 'blog'
        ]);

        $reportData = perch_blog_custom([
          'skip-template' => true,
          'blog'          => 'reports'
        ]);

        $blogCounter = 0;
        $reportCounter = 1;

        foreach ($blogData as $post) {
          $blogCounter++;

          perch_blog_custom([
            'blog'      => 'blog',
            'filter'    => 'postSlug',
            'match'     => 'eq',
            'value'     => $post['postSlug'],
            'template'  => '_insights.html'
          ]);

          if ($blogCounter % 2 === 0 ) {
            perch_blog_custom([
              'blog'      => 'reports',
              'paginate'  => false,
              'count'     => 1,
              'start'     => $reportCounter,
              'template'  => '_report_in_list.html',
            ]);

            $reportCounter++;
          }
        }