Duplicate blog app - best way to do this

Hello Paul,

If you are using regular Perch, you can have different post types so you can use different fields for different post types. However, all the posts appear under one listing.

If you are using Runway, you can add more than one blog and each blog can have its own master template for the post edit form. The posts are displayed separately in the control panel so it is easier to manage.

Perch Runway enables multiple blogs https://docs.grabaperch.com/addons/blog/runway/multiple-blogs/

Hi Al

I am using standard perch.

So if the posts are all under 1 listing do all fields display? i.e. all the fields from the separate templates? Or does it somehow filter them?

Also, can i use a separate URL for each type of post?

Can you also tell me what the use for blog sections is?

Thanks for your help

So if the posts are all under 1 listing do all fields display? i.e. all the fields from the separate templates? Or does it somehow filter them?

I think if you use perch_blog_post(), it will display the post using the same edit form template. So if your post type is /templates/blog/posts/alt_post.html, the function, I think, will automatically use that template to display your post.

Also, can i use a separate URL for each type of post?

You can check for the postTemplate to conditionally output different URLs:

<perch:if id="postTemplate" value="posts/alt_post.html">
<a href="/success-stories/<perch:blog id="postSlug" />">
<perch:else/>
<a href="/news/<perch:blog id="postSlug" />">
</perch:if>

Can you also tell me what the use for blog sections is?

I never used sections, but they could be useful in your case. From the docs:

Creating two Blog Sections can be useful if you want to have two distinct blog or news-like sections of your site. For example a traditional Blog and a company news page.

I believe you would still need to use post types to have different edit forms, but using sections should allow you to list the posts in each section (news and success stories in your case) separately.

So:

• Use post types to have different edit forms
• Use sections to separate News and Success Stories posts and list them separately

Hi Hussein

Great thanks

One other thing: for post templates documentation it states:

The template for each new post type goes into the templates/blog/posts folder. For example you might have templates/blog/posts/news.html.

Once new templates are added, the user will be prompted to select a post type when creating a new post.

I added a new template to the folder. I was expecting to be prompted to choose post type - why am i not?

Thakns

I added a new template to the folder. I was expecting to be prompted to choose post type - why am i not?

If you add templates inside templates/blog/posts then you go to create a new post, you should be prompted to choose a post type. Is this not happening?

Hi

No its not happening, no

What type of prompt is it? a select box or modal window or something?

i am on perch and not perch runway - but documentation doesnt seem to discriminate

ta

It's a select box. It gives you the option to pick the default master template blog/post.html and any other templates in blogs/posts/.

No its not happening, no

I don't know why it wouldn't. It's not a Runway only feature. Perhaps Rachel or Drew can help here. If you post your diagnostic report, they should be able to assist you.

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Hi,

Any update on this?