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Hi,

I’ve been looking for this on the forum but no luck so far. I think it’s an easy one and I’m overlooking something.

I have my articles page set up and each one of my posts have a link on the title to the detail page however when I then go to the detail page “site.com/article/post-name” the link is still there.

How do I hide the link if I am on the detail page? Following this I’d like to add a link back to the index page, but only want it to be displayed on the detail page. Any help would be greatly appreciated,

thanks,
a grateful noob

Sounds like you are reusing the same template.
Can you share the code that makes the article and the permalink part?

Oh, I guess thats wrong. Yeah I am using the same template because I wanted to keep the file path “sitename.com/articles/post-name”.

Are there any tutorials that you could point me to for setting this up.

Thanks,
J

Generally you would want to dedicate a ‘viewing’ or ‘reading’ template that presents single entry.
So your url structure would be:
sitename.com/template_group/template/entry-title
sitename.com/articles/view/post-title

Look over: http://expressionengine.com/blog/article_list/category/importance_of_semantics/

jamiedollard,

You can achieve this with something like the following in your articles/index template

{if segment_2 == ""}
{exp:channel:entries channel="articles" limit="10" dynamic="no"}
<h2>{title}</h2>
<p>{summary}<br />
<a href="http://{path=articles}/{url_title}">Read More</a><br />
<hr ><br />
{/exp:channel:entries}<br />
{/if}</p>

<p>{if segment_2 != ""}<br />
{exp:channel:entries channel="articles" limit="1" dynamic="no" url_title="{segment_2}"}</p><h2>{title}</h2>
<p>{summary}<br />
{body}<br />
<a href="http://{path=articles/index}">Back to Index</a></p>

<p>{/exp:channel:entries}<br />
{/if}

Let us know if that works for you

Wow, thanks very much John! This was exactly what I was after! I hadn’t thought of using segments. I will look into this as it looks like I will probably use this a lot. Really appreciate the assistance.

cheers,
J

Glad John was able to help. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.