ProBlog & getting home page to be separate from blog.php
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Hi, I'm having some trouble with the blog. Here's what I'd like to do:
1) Have a home page with a few elements on it, and 1 excerpt from the latest blog post, which links directly to that blog post
2) A blog.php page that shows a few of the most recent chronological blog posts, that has its own template, separate from the home page
3) That's... all.
I tried to build my own blog, then I purchased the ProBlog hoping there would be some advanced settings for that, but that's not working either.
Is there a way to set this up?
I'm lost.
Please he'p me.
1) Have a home page with a few elements on it, and 1 excerpt from the latest blog post, which links directly to that blog post
2) A blog.php page that shows a few of the most recent chronological blog posts, that has its own template, separate from the home page
3) That's... all.
I tried to build my own blog, then I purchased the ProBlog hoping there would be some advanced settings for that, but that's not working either.
Is there a way to set this up?
I'm lost.
Please he'p me.
you could get the "page list teasers" add-on from in the marketplace (free) and use this to do what you are asking. Using the core page list block you would set it to display posts from under your "blog" page and set it to display 1 result. Then apply the "Page list teasers" custom template to the page list!
Thanks, enlil! I downloaded the Page List Teasers block and I'm going to try to implement what you described. I'm a little confused about what you have in mind for the structure of it, because index.php and blog.php are the same... page. Index.php, in the design I'm building from, is completely different (except for the header and footer) from the blog page.
The index/home page design has a gallery in the body, followed by some text. The blog page design is supposed to have only some of the latest blog posts.
Should I build a page template and call it something like "blog2" or "blog-news" and grab the blog posts from outside of it somehow?
Sorry, just having a hard time figuring out what the first step is, structure-wise.
Thank you for your help so far!!
The index/home page design has a gallery in the body, followed by some text. The blog page design is supposed to have only some of the latest blog posts.
Should I build a page template and call it something like "blog2" or "blog-news" and grab the blog posts from outside of it somehow?
Sorry, just having a hard time figuring out what the first step is, structure-wise.
Thank you for your help so far!!
if you have a blog section under /blog you would place the page list with the applied template anywhere else on your site and then set it to display pages from beneath /blog like I described!!
Did you follow the ProBlog video's on Vimeo or read the documentation? Start with that.
ChadStrat
ChadStrat
Yes, I've watched the two ProBlog videos I found, and read through as much of the documentation as I could. I thought posting here might be a faster solution in case someone said "Oh, just do A, B, and C" because I'm on a tight deadline for the site I'm building and don't have the luxury of reading through everything unless I absolutely have to (I assumed ProBlog would be pretty self-explanatory) - but I think I have to, so I'll keep doing so. Thanks for your help!
