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Pagination and "start" option in perch_blog_custom array

Is there a particular reason why page pagination doesn't work when I have a "start" option in my array? When I remove it from the array, pagination works fine.

Also, when I paginate comments, the code outputs the links to each individual page in addition to the "previous" and "next" links, but when I use the same code for blog posts, I only get the "previous" and "next" links. How do I display individual page links in the pagination for blog listings?
Paul Moignard

Paul Moignard 0 points

  • 7 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

Yes, setting start disables the pagination, as the pagination otherwise controls the result set cursor.

For the other issue, post your template and we'll take a look.
Paul Moignard

Paul Moignard 0 points

7 years ago

Thanks for clarifying that Drew!

Here's my template for comments:

<perch:before>
    <ul class="comments listing">
</perch:before>
        <li id="comment<perch:blog id="commentID" type="hidden" />">
            <div class="comment">
                <div class="commenter">
                    <perch:if exists="commentURL"><a href="<perch:blog id="commentURL" type="url" label="URL" order="3" />"></perch:if>
                        <h4 class="poster"><perch:blog id="commentName" type="text" label="Name" order="1" required="true" /> - <perch:blog id="commentDateTime" format="%d %b %Y %X" type="date" time="true" label="Date" /></h4>
                    <perch:if exists="commentURL"></a></perch:if>
                </div>
                <perch:blog id="commentHTML" encode="false" html="true" type="textarea" label="Message (HTML)" order="4" required="true" />
            </div>
        </li>
<perch:after>
    </ul>
                         <perch:if exists="paging">
                            <div id="browse-nav" class="cf paging fadehover">
                                <perch:if exists="not_first_page">
                                    <a href="<perch:blog id="prev_url" type="hidden" encode="false" />" id="prev" class="left">Previous Post</a>
                                </perch:if>
                                    <!-- span class="left">Page <perch:blog id="current_page" type="hidden" /> of <perch:blog id="number_of_pages" type="hidden" /></span> -->
                                    <perch:blog id="page_links" encode="false" />
                                <perch:if exists="not_last_page">
                                    <a href="<perch:blog id="next_url" type="hidden" encode="false" />" id="next" class="right">Next Post</a>
                                </perch:if>
                              </div><!-- End browse-nav -->
                        </perch:if>
</perch:after>

And here is my template for the blog post list:

<perch:before>
<ul class="hfeed listing">
</perch:before>
    <li class="blog-lst-sml blog-entry">
        <h1><a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />" rel="bookmark" class="entry-title"><perch:blog id="postTitle" /></a></h1>
        <span class="date"><perch:blog order="2" id="postDateTime" format="%B %d, %Y" /></span>
        <div class="cf">
            <div class="cf">
            <div class="blog-lst-sml-img left">
                <img src="<perch:blog id="image" type="image" width="100" height="100" crop="true" />" alt="<perch:blog id="postTitle" />" />
            </div><!-- End blog-lst-sml-img -->
            <div class="blog-lst-sml-text right">
                <perch:blog id="postDescHTML" type="textarea" textile="true" words="50" append="..." /><a class="read-more right" href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />" rel="bookmark">Read More</a>
            </div><!-- End blog-lst-sml-text -->
            </div>
            <div class="blog-footer cf">
                <a class="comments left" href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />#comments">Comments (<perch:blog id="postCommentCount"/>)</a>
                <div class="share cf">
                    <span class="left">Share</span>
                    <ul class="social-links right fadehover">
                        <li id="pinterest" class="popuplink"><a href="javascript:void(0);">Pinterest</a></li>
                        <li id="facebook"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.designsbystarling.com/blog/<perch:blog id="postURL" />" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li>
                        <li id="twitter"><a href="https://twitter.com/share?url=https://www.designsbystarling.com/blog/<perch:blog id="postURL" />">
Share This on Twitter">Twitter</a></li>
                    </ul><!-- End social-links -->          
                </div><!-- End share -->                
            </div><!-- End blog-footer -->
        </div>
    </li>
<perch:after>
    </ul>
                         <perch:if exists="paging">
                            <div id="browse-nav" class="cf paging fadehover">
                                <perch:if exists="not_first_page">
                                    <a href="<perch:blog id="prev_url" type="hidden" encode="false" />" id="prev" class="left">Previous Post</a>
                                </perch:if>
                                    <span class="left">Page <perch:blog id="current_page" type="hidden" /> of <perch:blog id="number_of_pages" type="hidden" /></span>
                                    <perch:blog id="page_links" encode="false" />
                                <perch:if exists="not_last_page">
                                    <a href="<perch:blog id="next_url" type="hidden" encode="false" />" id="next" class="right">Next Post</a>
                                </perch:if>
                              </div><!-- End browse-nav -->
                        </perch:if>
</perch:after>
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

You have page-links included in the template. I'm presuming you've enabled them on the page function, yes?
Paul Moignard

Paul Moignard 0 points

7 years ago

No, I didn't. They just show up for comments without having to enable them on the page function, so I didn't know it was necessary to enable them on perch_blog_custom. Its working fine now. Thanks Drew!