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Hi.

I’m struggling to get my news page working and wondered if anyone could offer some help.

I can display the news articles but when you click ‘more’ (or on the headline) it doesn’t really work..

http://www.emagregional.org.uk/national-news/Barnsley/

The ‘more’ link uses “{title_permalink=national-news/view}” and the link on the headline uses “/national-news/view/{segment_2}/{url_title}”....I have done them differently just to test options.

Segment_2 is required to show the region name in the header and relevant content on some of the other pages.

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Jon

What does your weblog tags look like on thew single-entry page? Can you post the code?

Have you thought of maybe using categories for the regions? This would simplify things a bit.

Hello Adam

This is the excerpt page (/national-news/)...

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="national-campaign-news" orderby="date" limit="8" paginate="bottom" dynamic="off"}

<h3><a href="/national-news/view/{segment_2}/{url_title}">{title}</a></h3>

<p> </p>

<p>{exp:md_eexcerpt if_exceeds="100" stop_after="100" <br />
the_link="<a href='{title_permalink=national-news/view}'>MORE</a>"}<br />
{news-body}<br />
{/exp:md_eexcerpt}</p>

<p>{paginate}<br />
{if "{total_pages}" != 1}Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}{/if}<br />
{/paginate} </p>

<p> </p>

<p>{/exp:weblog:entries}

Here’s the code from the page that displays the whole article (/national-news/view/)...

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="national-campaign-news" limit="1"}

<h2>{title}</h2>
<p>{if news-image != ''}<br />
<div class="imagefloatright">/img/news/{news-image}<br />
{if news-image-caption != ''}<br />
{news-image-caption}</p>

<p>{/if}<br />
</div><br />
{/if}</p>

<p>{news-body}</p>

<p>{/exp:weblog:entries}

I didn’t use categories for the 80 regions as they needed to include several fields to hold region specific contact details, coordinates for the location on the homepage map, an image link, etc.

Thanks
Jon

Try adding url_title=”{segment_4}” to your weblog tag, like so:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="national-campaign-news" limit="1" url_title="{segment_4}"}

<h2>{title}</h2>
<p>{if news-image != ''}<br />
<div class="imagefloatright">/img/news/{news-image}<br />
{if news-image-caption != ''}<br />
{news-image-caption}</p>

<p>{/if}<br />
</div><br />
{/if}</p>

<p>{news-body}</p>

<p>{/exp:weblog:entries}

This will tell EE to grab the url_title from that correct segment.

Does this help?

It doesn’t display anything now…

http://www.emagregional.org.uk/national-news/view/Barnsley/emag-takes-treasury-to-court

What about:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="national-campaign-news" limit="1" url_title="{segment_4}" dynamic="off"}

Does that work?

Thank you Adam, that works.

One problem though - the paginate links don’t work. Any suggestions?

Hmm- I could have sworn I replied to this already 😉 Must have been a browser issue.

Your first weblog:entries tag has dynamic=“off” which will prevent pagination from working. Try removing that:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="national-campaign-news" orderby="date" limit="8" paginate="bottom"}

When I remove dynamic=“off” no news is displayed!

I guess this is because none of the national news is linked to a specific region.

Hmm… Well pagination will only work if that weblog is dynamic, (Being controlled by the url).

Can you try disabling htaccess and then retesting?