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Hi,

I currently have my channels / templates set up for a blog, so that I have the following working urls (lists posts):

http://example.com/posts
http://example.com/posts/category/a-category
http://example.com/posts/2011/
http://example.com/posts/2011/02
http://example.com/posts/2011/02/01

These all work fine using the ‘index’ template with all the filtering working nicely out of the box.

What I’m struggling to do is get the single post page working (different template called ‘post’). Currently I have it working at:

http://example.com/posts/post/a-blog-post-title

What I’d like to do is change it so this is the url:

http://example.com/posts/2011/02/a-blog-post-title
or,
http://example.com/posts/2011/02/01/a-blog-post-title

Is there a way to do this by configuring something or will I need to pop some code in to use the different segments? I’m fine doing it either way, I was just worried I’m about to start reinventing the wheel and there is a simple way to achieve this.

Thanks in advance,
Steve

Hi Steve

Is it an option for you to create another Template Group called /post/ (singular) and use the index template within that to render a single article?

Indeed it is! That’s saved me a whole heap of time. I had a feeling I was going about it in a totally long-winded way, glad I checked. Much appreciated.

Many thanks,
Steve

Sorry, I was a bit quick with the previous reply.

Unfortunately it still filters the posts by the dates, so if I have multiple posts on the same day, it’ll pick the first post, regardless of what the post-title is. So I’m a step in the right direction, it’s using the correct template now.

Thanks for the quick response though.

Steve

Hi Steve

No trouble, welcome to the forums mate

Am I correct in understanding you…. The template: http://example.com/post/a-blog-post-title is displaying more than one entry? i.e. it’s not necessarily displaying the Entry with the title “a blog post title” ???

Matt

You’re working a bit against how EE wants to natively use URL’s to know what entries to pull.  EE knows how to do things natively by URL title or date parameters, but not both at the same time.

In order to do that you’ll need to make sure the channel:entries tag on the single-entry template is set to “dynamic=no” so that EE stops working automatically with the URL.

Then try a parameter of “url_title=”{last_segment}” so EE knows what is the entry you are actually looking to get.

Solved it!

Looks like I need to specify the ‘url_title’ parameter e.g.

{exp:channel:entries channel="posts" limit="1" url_title="{segment_4}”}

So for my urls it would be:

url_title=”{segment_4}” for /post/2011/02/the-post-title, or
url_title=”{segment_5}” for /post/2011/02/05/the-post-title

That all seems to work dandy. I knew there would be a straightforward way of doing it.

Steve

Thanks Boyink! I was typing at the same time you replied. That works brilliantly.

Steve

Nice one Mike, thanks Sir.

Well done Steve!

Glad you have a solution, and thanks Matt and Mike for assisting.

Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.