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Blog/News app
I have the blog app installed and am using it for the news section on a clients website. The files are in a folder named News, however, I have the following on a page in the root of the website <?php perch_news_date_archive_months(); ?> My problem is: how do I direct <?php perch_news_date_archive_months(); ?> to the News Folder where the archives are?
Hope that made some sense
You probably need to look at "Settings, Blog, Blog post page path" to see if its pointing to the right folder.
I have the News page and all files in its own folder, but I wanted to put a list of old news on a page that is in the root of the website. Not sure how to do this? if I change the settings for the post page path won't that change the path for the files in the News Folder? basically I want the News to be in its own folder and to display a list of 3 latest news articles on a page outside of the News folder which when clicked on takes me to the full page which is in the News folder :)
No, the setting change would be wrong. If I understand correctly, I think you may need perch_blog_custom for that. You can extract blog posts and pass them through another template for displaying extracts on another page.
https://docs.grabaperch.com/docs/blog/page-functions/custom/
There is a video detailing exactly that scenario: https://docs.grabaperch.com/video/tutorials/swift/blog-homepage/
You just need to set your path and use root relative links, you can also use a different template as explained in the video.