Hello. EE newcomer from MT here. I’m recoding my site from scratch and am running into difficulty with an “individual” archive template (that’s MT lingo—doesn’t seem to be an EE equivalent).

I have a template created called archives for a blog named etherblog. The archives template is used for individual archives (permalinks). I’d like to have a list of recent entry in the sidebar on this template, but for some reason the code I use only returns one entry.

This is the code I use:

This is the same code (minus a summary field) I use to display recent entries on the index page, and it works fine there. Why is it not working on the individual template page?

I did some poking around in the forums and found a post which suggests using the related_entries tag to accomplish the same thing, with the added benefit of excluding the current entry from the list. I do not have entries assigned to categories (yet, and perhaps won’t), so perhaps that doesn’t work either. Related to this, is there a way to specify all categories?

The issue you’re running into is that the {exp:weblog:entries} tag in your sidebar is restricting its display to the specific entry you’re viewing.  By default, that tag will always restrict itself to whatever’s specified in the URL.

In your case, though, you want to override this so that you can “hardcode” those entries in the sidebar.  That’s easy to do by just adding the dynamic=“off” parameter to the opening tag.  See this entry in the Knowledge-Blog.

> Related to this, is there a way to specify all categories?

Not sure what you mean.  Specify all categories for what?

Thanks, Chris. I’ll give the dynamic setting a shot.

Not sure what you mean. Specify all categories for what?

I read in the manual the following, under related_entries:

If you don’t specify a category the query will show all entries in the same category as the one being viewed. When you add category numbers to the category parameter they will be included or excluded.