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My client is asking me to make it so his home page will call 4 different weblogs into the same list, ordered by date. Is this even possible?

Thanks for any help here.

Steve

Do you mean:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="foo|bar|spaz|splat" orderby="date"}

?

I was able to find that, but… I guess this is kind of complicated.

My issue now is that I can call those entries, and that works well. But I’m using word limiter plus, and the only way I could get the limiting working well creates this strange, ugly code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="home|leadership|foodentertainment|green" dynamic="off" limit="8" show_future_entries="yes"}
                <div class="content_item">
                    <h1><a href="http://{url_title_path=listings/index_detail}">{title}</a></h1>
                    {entry_date format="%F %j%S, %Y"} by {author}
                    {exp:word_limit_plus if_exceeds="200" stop_after="175" the_link="<a href='{title_permalink=listings/index_detail}'>Read more…</a>"}{Home}{/exp:word_limit_plus}<div class="clear"></div>
                    {exp:word_limit_plus if_exceeds="200" stop_after="175" the_link="<a href='{title_permalink=listings/leadership_detail}'>Read more…</a>"}{Leadership}{/exp:word_limit_plus}<div class="clear"></div>
                    {exp:word_limit_plus if_exceeds="200" stop_after="175" the_link="<a href='{title_permalink=listings/food_entertainment_detail}'>Read more…</a>"}{FoodEntertainment}{/exp:word_limit_plus}<div class="clear"></div>
                    {exp:word_limit_plus if_exceeds="200" stop_after="175" the_link="<a href='{title_permalink=listings/green_detail}'>Read more…</a>"}{Green}{/exp:word_limit_plus}
                </div>
            {/exp:weblog:entries}

So the problem that comes now is linking to the titles of the entries (They all link to ‘listings/index_detail’, so only the Home weblog’s titles are linked properly). Similarly, I want to be able to link to the comments of each entry as well.

I’ve tried a few things, but I guess as you can imagine, it’s easy to make really weird stuff happen here. Is it possible to make this set up work, or is calling multiple weblogs a fairly limited feature?

Thanks for getting back to me - I should have updated my question sooner.

Is this a dead-end? I feel pretty hopeless, haha. I’ve goofed around so much to no avail.

If I’m understanding correctly this is what you want.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="home|leadership|foodentertainment|green" dynamic="off" limit="8" show_future_entries="yes"}
                <div class="content_item">
                    <h1><a href="http://{url_title_path=listings/index_detail}">{title}</a></h1>
                    {entry_date format="%F %j%S, %Y"} by {author}
{if weblog_id == "n"}
                    {exp:word_limit_plus if_exceeds="200" stop_after="175" the_link="<a href='{title_permalink=listings/index_detail}'>Read more…</a>"}{Home}{/exp:word_limit_plus}<div class="clear"></div>
{if:elseif weblog_id == "n"}
                    {exp:word_limit_plus if_exceeds="200" stop_after="175" the_link="<a href='{title_permalink=listings/leadership_detail}'>Read more…</a>"}{Leadership}{/exp:word_limit_plus}<div class="clear"></div>
{if:elseif weblog_id == "n"}
                    {exp:word_limit_plus if_exceeds="200" stop_after="175" the_link="<a href='{title_permalink=listings/food_entertainment_detail}'>Read more…</a>"}{FoodEntertainment}{/exp:word_limit_plus}<div class="clear"></div>
{if:elseif weblog_id == "n"}
                    {exp:word_limit_plus if_exceeds="200" stop_after="175" the_link="<a href='{title_permalink=listings/green_detail}'>Read more…</a>"}{Green}{/exp:word_limit_plus}
{/if}
                </div>
            {/exp:weblog:entries}

Replace “n” in each instance with the corresponding weblog ID number. Let me know if this works for you.

Or you could just use {comment_url_title_auto_path} and ditch the conditionals. =)

Would that work if comments aren’t involved?

Yes, you’re just setting up a per-weblog permalink, you don’t have to use comments to use it.  Try outputting it on the page and see what comes out to understand.

The result I get is a link like: http://example.com/article_title_goes_here

Where as I need it to say: http://example.com/template_group/template/article_title_goes_here

Is there a way to automatically insert the template group and template name as well? I’m guessing I should use conditionals with the weblog id to determine which template group and template to use, but I thought I’d check here first.

Thanks! I’m a step closer.

The conditionals should work. But I’ll let Lisa answer about using the {comment_url_title_auto_path} method.

gogglez - did you fill out the Comment URL path as explained in the docs for that variable? You’ll need to fill it out for this to work.  No conditionals needed, since that path is per weblog - it’s already a conditional.

Ahhhh I apologize, I think I expected expressionengine to pull a rabbit out of its hat there. Once I set up the comment url paths properly, this worked perfectly. The final code ended up being really similar to what I started with too, which is kind of a relief.

Everything is easy to do with expressionengine if you know how to do it, haha. Thanks a lot for your help.

Ahh, I think I get it now. Awesome solution.

Hey Lisa since you were so masterful at solving this solution, perhaps you might take a look at a thread of mine if you haven’t already?

http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/156283/

Thanks.

Everything is easy to do with expressionengine if you know how to do it, haha.

I remember having that same thought - but that was in 2004 when I first started. I promise, it does get easier.

Glad you got it working!