Forums

Looking for help with setting up a blog within 5.7

Permalink
I found this useful when trying to set up a 5.6 site - Manually set up the basic blog (if you didn't include "sample content" when installing your site) (http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/editors/manually-set-up-the-basic-blog-if-you-didnt-include-sample-conte/)

Is there a 5.7-compatible version of this tutorial? I've made a new template for blog entries but can't seem to get it to display the actual content. Everything else seems to work fine though.

The sample content loaded when I installed seems to use default.php, which displays the content using:

<main>
   <?php
      $a = new Area( 'Main' );
      $a->enableGridContainer();
      $a->display( $c );
   ?>
</main>


However if I use that in my template file, it does not display the content. Adding a Content block to the page template output just creates an empty block that's never populated - and if I manually add text it just seems to create a block that then sits on every page.

I'm having real problems here and it's causing a project to run late and causing havoc with my blood pressure, as I can't seem to find much information that is useful for 5.7

Can anybody help?
 
openimp replied on at Permalink Reply
Ok, I've managed to have some blog content display using information found here -https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/5-7-discussion/setting-up...

The main fix seemed to be making sure that there was a composer block wired to "Content" that was displayed on the blog template output.
seefivedev replied on at Permalink Reply
seefivedev
"Is there a 5.7-compatible version of this tutorial?"

Yes, here's one:http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/editors/setup-a-simp...