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Hello all. I have a site that has 3 weblogs: inner-page, news, and events. Each weblog (through Gypsy) has a drop down field to denote if a new entry should be posted on the homepage. The code for the news section is:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="inner-pages|news|events" limit="3"
disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks|category_fields" dynamic="off" orderby="date"} 
<li> 

    {if home-news-blurb !="" && in-whats-new != "No"}
        <a href="http://{page_uri}"><span>{title}</span>__        <strong>{home-news-blurb}</strong>__   _    {if:elseif lead-in !="" && in-whats-new != "No"}_        <a href="{page_uri}"><span>{title}</span>__        <strong>{lead-in}</strong>___    {if:elseif event-lead-in !="" && in-whats-new != "No"}_        <a href="{page_uri}"><span>{title} _        {if event-date !=""}({event-date format="%F %j, %Y"} - {event-time}){/if}</span>__        <strong>{event-lead-in}</strong>___    {/if}__    <span class="more">More »</span></a></li>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

It mostly works as expected but there is one issue that I’m running into. If a new entry is created and the in-whats-new field is set to “no”, the order is pushed down (as expected) but then the first entry appears blank.

To illustrate, prior to a new entry with “no” selected as to whether or not to show on the homepage, the news looks like:

- Item 1 More »
- Item 2 More »
- Item 3 More »

If a new entry is added and the “no” option is selected, you see

- blank More »
- Item 1 More »
- Item 2 More »

Part of me feels like I may be overlooking something obvious but any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

The reason you are getting the ‘blank’ is because the ‘No’ option is selected and so none of the if statements are met.  The More link is outside the if statement so it is still displaying.  The way you are using the weblog entries tag, you are getting 3 results.. it’s just that one of the results has ‘No’ selected.

I think what you are trying to do is get the top 3 results that do not have ‘No’ selected for that option.

One way for doing so may be via the Query module:
http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/query/index.html

Hi Triom,

Thanks for the lead. I didn’t want to let you think I ignored this thread. Will do a bit of research over the weekend and see how that goes and will let you know.

Thank you once again.