Does anyone know of an extension that will allow me to automatically
display recent articles with a title and a small excerpt?
It’s built in.
<r:find url="/news">
This is off the top of my head so I’m not 100% sure that will work. But
it’s close.
Thanks Joel, I had no idea that was in there!
The code you sent me provides a list of links, is there anyway to format
it so that it shows a small excerpt for each link, and keeps the site
formatting styles (header1,2 etc.)?
Basically so it would look like this:
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3228/screenshot20101108at191.jpg
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated
Use a page part and call that if you want to choose the excerpt or you
can
use truncate GitHub - saturnflyer/radiant-truncate-extension: Adds truncate tag to Radiant for truncating data within the tag.
to
take the first X characters from the article and, well, truncate them.
–
Rachel
You should probably look at some documentation. For starters:
http://radiantcms.org/blog/archives/2006/05/11/tag-primer/
And my example was based on the assumption you had a page part for all
your
articles/posts called “excerpt”. If you don’t have one you’ll either
have
to add one or maybe use something like a text expander plugin of some
sort
(example: http://plugins.learningjquery.com/expander/)
Good luck!
- Joel
Either make sure that only pages you want pulled in are under the url
you’re
pointing at (why is your contact us page under /articles ?) or look into
featured pages
GitHub - saturnflyer/radiant-featured_pages-extension: Adds the ability to feature pages in Radiant and list them without regard to their place in the page hierarchy to
select
particular pages for display only.
–
Rachel
Sweet, thanks Rachel, I’ll definitely check out that extension.
So far I’ve gotten the following code to do what I want:
<r:find url="/articles">
What would I need to add to this so that Radiant only pulls pages that
have excerpts (to stop it pulling things like “contact us” pages or menu
pages etc.?
Thanks!
Sweet, thanks guys for all your help!
I got lots to read up on now 
I’m about to announce a re-release of featured_pages, but that’s not
what you want here.
I’m not sure why you have a ‘contact us’ page under articles, but you
might have your reasons.
Using featured_pages would require a lot of manual labor.
What you want is for it to be automatic.
Just use the <r:if_url> or <r:unless_url> tags.
You can do something like this:
<r:find url=“/articles”>
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The wiki has a lot of great content