Blog Templates

Thanks for the quick response. Sure thats makes sense.

So if i had the exact same structure as your demo blog, but now have two sections to my blog A and B.

If you happen to land on a page that is displaying section A rather than B's latest posts when you click its link populated by postURL does it not simply call on the post.php?

Am i still getting mixed up?

Ok, so if i take the files you provide with the blog app. and use your structure entirely. But now i add another section. So i have two sections.

If i open up the index.php page in the blog directory i view my posts populated by my post_in_list template. Once i click on a blog title this takes me to the post and displays it using the post.php page within the blog directory. Using href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />"

Im guessing that due to my settings for blog post page path being /blog/{postSlug} this is how it builds the URL.

So i'm just confused as how i can place the section into the URL to call it?

Apologise if i'm barking up the wrong tree (when can we sign up to perch curses?).

cheers in advance.

Could i do something like on the archive page, use perch_get?

Hi Drew,

I'm going to use Perch Categories for this now, it's probably the better solution.

Thanks for your help.

Hi Drew

I'm going to re visit this. I'm aware of the below but I don't see how this allows me to then display the post within a different post.php

To clarify I want to use different post.php pages for each section of my blog as I use the blog for displaying posts but also case studies so require a different page layout.

Any help would be great.

Drew McLellan said:

You need to include the section slug in your blog post path. You can then use perch_get() to read it back from the URL and filter the list on the section.

Is there a reference to this in the docs? if not could you humour me a post a little example if i promise not to post to the forum for two two weeks? ;-)

Ok, i'm struggling on this now. I have the below in my post.php

            <?php if (perch_get('section')=='case-study') {

            echo '<div class="column column--full">
                     <div class="item--container">';


                perch_blog_custom(array(
                    'template' => 'posts/Case_Study.html',
                    'count'=> 1
                ));

                echo '</div>
                              </div><!--/full-->';



            } else {





                echo '<div class="column column--two-thirds">
                      <div class="item--container">';


                perch_blog_post(perch_get('s'));


                echo '</div>
                              </div><!--/two-thirds-->';

                echo '<div class="column colun--one-third">
                     <div class="conatiner">
                     <nav class="sidebar">';

                perch_blog_categories('category_link--custom.html');
                perch_blog_tags('tag_link--custom.html');
                perch_blog_date_archive_years('year_link--custom.html');
                perch_blog_date_archive_months('months_year_link--custom.html');

                echo "</nav><!-- /sidebar -->
                          </div><!-- /container -->
                      </div><!-- /one-third -->";


            }
            ?>  

And i have the this in my template

  <a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />?section=<perch:blog id="sectionSlug" />" rel="bookmark" class="entry-title"><perch:blog id="postTitle" /></a>

But although i can see the section slug in the URL my if statement fails and it passes straight onto the else.

Im doing something stupid probably, but i've been on this for 1.5 days now so any help/advice i assure you is appreciated.

Dan

Ok I've been playing some more and if i strip out the html and keep that in my template it seems to work ok, but i need the sidebar and the php thats in that for the archive links. This cant then run in the template as gets commented out.

Hi Drew,

Testing shows my If statement being ignored, i have

            <?php 

            if (perch_get('section') == 'case-study') {
                perch_blog_post(perch_get('s'));

            } else {
                perch_blog_post(perch_get('s'));


                echo '<div class="column column--one-third">
                      <div class="container">
                      <nav class="sidebar">';

                    perch_blog_categories('category_link--custom.html');

                    perch_blog_tags('tag_link--custom.html');

                    perch_blog_date_archive_years('year_link--custom.html');

                    perch_blog_date_archive_months('months_year_link--custom.html');

                echo '</nav><!-- /sidebar -->
                      </div><!-- /container -->
                      </div><!-- /one-third -->';



            }
            ?>  

I can see the section "case-stufy" in the url string but the statement ignores it.

any thoughts be much appreciated?

Dan

forgive me but is this as simple as. If so nothing

<h1><?php perch_get('section'); ?></h1>

/blog/1970-01-01-sharing-your-story?section=case-study

but nothing gets outputted at the location of below.

<?php echo perch_get('section'); ?>