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Recent Posts Sidebar
4 July 2010 at 1:51am
Hi, I'm building my first site with ss. WooHoo!
I'm trying to figure out how I can insert a sidebar that displays the most recent blog posts.
I'll be doing this on the homepage only.Thanks in advance!
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Re: Recent Posts Sidebar
4 July 2010 at 6:02am
hmmz
how many pages u wanna show in recent pages module?
what pagetype u use for the pages??I have used the latestnews module functionality
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Re: Recent Posts Sidebar
4 July 2010 at 11:46am
@SSTN - an example of that is part of the tutorials http://doc.silverstripe.org/tutorial:2-extending-a-basic-site#showing_the_latest_news_on_the_homepage
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Re: Recent Posts Sidebar
7 July 2010 at 6:17am
Willr, Thanks.
Does this apply to the Blog Module? That's what I'm using.
I'm not a coder, so I just get by, and I can't figure this out. -
Re: Recent Posts Sidebar
7 July 2010 at 8:53am
It can be applied to anything. If you want to show the latest Blog Entries these are under the classname 'BlogEntry' so simply adapt that function to
function LatestNews($num=5) {
return DataObject::get("BlogEntry", "Date DESC", "", $num);
}Then in the template you can use <% control LatestNews %>$Title, $Content...<% end_control %>.
Thats how to build it using custom controls. If you have a sidebar already filled with widgets you could use a widget like http://silverstripe.org/blog-links-widget/
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Re: Recent Posts Sidebar
7 July 2010 at 4:20pm Last edited: 8 July 2010 7:08am
Aha! Nevermind. The instructions in the tutorial worked fine. I was just misunderstanding how to properly flush the cache to see the change.
Thanks!
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