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Republishing blog posts

Is there some way to republish blog posts after updating the post.html template? Like you can for page content regions.

I added a checkbox to an existing clients blog template to allow them to pin featured posts to the top of the blog listings, similar to this: https://forum.grabaperch.com/forum/11-20-2015-blog-featured-pinned-post … only problem is that every post has to be manually resaved for non-pinned posts to be displayed & there are hundreds!

Nothing is output from this, presumably because the newly added field I'm using to filter the result with (featured_post) is missing.

perch_blog_custom([
    'template' => 'post_in_list.html',
    'count' => 8,
    'sort' => 'postDateTime',
    'sort-order' => 'DESC',
    'filter' => 'featured_post', 
    'match' => 'neq', 
    'value' => 1
]);

Thanks in advance!
Adam Green

Adam Green 0 points

  • 2 years ago
Mike Hendriks

Mike Hendriks 0 points

2 years ago

Hi Adam,

If I remember correctly you can visit:

/perch/addons/apps/perch_blog/update/
Adam Green

Adam Green 0 points

2 years ago

Thanks Mike, I see that has helped others in the past (where categories are concerned) but unfortunately doesn’t work in this case.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

2 years ago

Try removing the row for perch_blog_update in the perch3_settings table and run the update again.
Adam Green

Adam Green 0 points

2 years ago

Thanks Drew, I just tried your suggestion but still no success.

I found a workaround to filter out the non-pinned posts by doing the filtering with if statements inside the post_in_list.html template, i.e.

<perch:if id="featured_post" value="1" match="eq"><perch:else>
<li class="hentry"> [ post summary ] </li>
</perch:if>

Is there a republish function earmarked for a future blog app update & if not, would you please consider? Many thanks!
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

2 years ago

I just tried your suggestion but still no success.

What happened? Did you see the update run through your posts 10 at a time?
Adam Green

Adam Green 0 points

2 years ago

Yes, it ran through the update 10 posts at a time as you'd expect, but the new featured_post checkbox field id wasn't added to the (unchecked) posts - verified by adding <perch:showall/> to the post_in_list.html loop. I thought it might be to do with the binary nature of the checkbox field type, so I tried it as a select type instead, removed the perch_blog_update entry form the perch3_settings table in the db & ran the update again, but no difference.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

2 years ago

Ok. I would've expected that to work, but perhaps not. That's all a republish would do (that's what it's doing) so I'm not sure adding another republish option would help you.