Is there a way to take content from other pages?
(in Page.ss)
$Page(Blog).Content

or something like that?

If there is a way to do that, is there a way to show only like the first 3 posts?
$Page(Blog).Content(3)

What I am trying to do, is be able to include content from multiple pages and show that content through Page.ss.

You can try these:

$ChildrenOf(url-segment).Content

As for limiting post count inside the template, the only way im aware of is:

$ChildrenOf(blog-url-segment).Iterator.Offset(0)
$ChildrenOf(blog-url-segment).Iterator.Offset(1)
$ChildrenOf(blog-url-segment).Iterator.Offset(2)

or

$ChildrenOf(blog-url-segment).Range(0, 3)

but im not sure if the second one will work in a <% control %> block.

I can't get these to work like I was hoping to.

When I use any of those, it just places a link.

Example...
$ChildrenOf(Blog).Content
This will add links to the blog posts.
(here is what the html looks like.)

<ul id="Menu1">
<li onclick="location.href = this.getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href"><a href="">SilverStripe blog module successfully installed</a></li>
</ul>
.Content 

Is the syntax different?

**edit**

<% control ChildrenOf(Blog) %>
$Content
<% end_control %>

This works

My first snippet was stuffed up a bit - i just realised it would have to be nested inside a control as well.

As for the snippet you posted, are you trying to achieve something like:

<ul id="Menu1">
	<% control ChildrenOf(blog) %>
		<li><a href="$Link">$Title</a> - $Content.FirstParagraph</li>
	</ul>
<% end_control %>

That code snippit was what

$ChildrenOf(Blog).Content

output (no <% control %>) just that line by itself.

This does work though
<% control ChildrenOf(Blog) %>
$Content
<% end_control %>

By the way, Thank you :D

You punted me in the right direction.

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I still need to figure out somehow to limit it.

lets say, I only need the first 4 images from the gallery page.

Here are some things Ive tried.

ChildrenOf(gallery).Iterator.Offset(2)
ChildrenOf(gallery).Range(0, 3)
ChildrenOf(gallery)(2)
ChildrenOf(gallery).(2)

Hi again grilldan,

I think the problem is that currently <% control Something.SomethingElse(x) %> isn't supported. However, you can always use something like:

<% control ChildrenOf(blog) %>
	<% control Range(0,3) %>
		$Content
	<% end_control %>
<% end_control %>

Awesome =D Thanks!