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Changing the blog post slug

I am new to perch so hitting some issues. I am converting a Wordpress blog over to Perch. In addition to the postTitle each posts have a "smalldesc" text field which may or may not be present. Now the slugs for each post is a combination of the post title and smalldesc field in Wordpress. I am trying to replicate that in runway.

I have added the below field after the postTitle in the template.

<perch:blog id="postSlug" type="slug" label="Post slug" size="xl autowidth" order="1" editable="true" suppress="true" />

Even though I make the field editable it automatically resets itself to postTitle because that is what the setting is. If I remove the {postTitle} setting it defaults to date-postTitle. I tried adding a custom slug field like

<perch:blog id="recipesPostSlug" type="slug" label="Post slug" size="xl autowidth" order="1" editable="true" suppress="true" />

and then in my template

perch_blog_custom(array(
                            'filter' => array(
                                 array(
                                    'filter' => 'recipesPostSlug',
                                    'match' => 'eq',
                                    'value' => perch_get('s'),
                                ),
                                 array(
                                    'filter' => 'postSlug',
                                    'match' => 'eq',
                                    'value' => perch_get('s'),
                                ),
                            ),
                            'match' => 'or'
                        ));

This works and I am able to see the posts in the custom slug. But it also shows up in the regular postSlug. I can live with that. However all other Page Functions like perch_blog_post_tags, perch_blog_post_meta etc. query directly on the postSlug.

I over the perch_blog_post_meta function in my template where it queries with my custom slug. However this feels to me as if I am duplicating each and every function.

Is there a way I can update the postSlug itself. That will reduce lots of code.

I am right now developing locally. I am on OSX and I am using MAMP.

Here is my diagnostic report:

Diagnostics report
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Shubhojyoti Bhattacharya

Shubhojyoti Bhattacharya 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

There's a currently open bug about the postSlug changing when the post title changes. It should stay the same.
Shubhojyoti Bhattacharya

Shubhojyoti Bhattacharya 0 points

5 years ago

Okay thanks for the confirmation. I am trying out some workarounds.