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Create two 'post' templates
I need a post template for the 'blog' posts section on my site and another for the 'news' posts section.
Question is how do I set this up? at the moment I have a post.php page in a /posts/ folder which is the blog post template.
But what is telling the CMS to look in /posts/post.php for the template for all posts no matter what section they're in?
The CMS just looks for the
postsfolder - nothing 'tells' it so as such.Are your post types not showing up?
Post types?
Yes, you said you needed two different types of post - one for news and one for blog.
Have you created
posts/news.phpfor example?I've just added a news.php file for the news post but it has no effect.
What command calls this file to be used on news posts?
You can choose the post type "news" from the post edit page (when adding a new post). There's a dropdown choice normally below the Allow Comments checkbox.
I don't get that option Clive.
It might be that the option only appears when you have something in the specific template folder. That is, alternative templates in
perch/templates/blog/posts.For example, you would need to add a
news.htmltemplate there. This template provides the alternative fields for your News post type. It could be similar to thepost.htmltemplate of course.Is that what you want to do? Choose a different post type for News and for Blog as you create a post?
I've tried that as well. I've put a news.html in the Perch folder /blog/templates/
Drew did say to put a news.php file in the /posts/ folder (that's where my blog post template lives. but that's not having any effect either.
The
news.htmltemplate needs to be inperch/templates/blog/postsfolder. I'm not entirely sure where you have put it.This is where it is located.
The default post.html is in the folder above: /templates/blog/
That all sounds OK. In which case, I don't understand why you cannot see the Post type dropdown choice under Allow Comments when you add a post.
I don't understand either. A job for another day I think.