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I am a bit Lost.

I am creating my newsroom, which will have three or four unordered lists listing the most recent posts in a few categories.

Then when user clicks on a single article, it will take them to a page to view just that article (single post…)

Do I need to make a template for this?
If so do I set up the tag pair as follows?

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="1"}
    <h2>{title}</h2>
<p>    {body}<br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

Basically setting the limit to one?

To sum it up, I dont quite understand the play between an archive template and a single template???

Yes, that’s essentially how it’s done.  You CAN do it with a single index template doing the work by setting a bunch of conditionals, but it slows performance so a separate template for “view” is probably best.

Hi Stefan

I am a bit Lost.

I am creating my newsroom, which will have three or four unordered lists listing the most recent posts in a few categories.

Then when user clicks on a single article, it will take them to a page to view just that article (single post…)

Do I need to make a template for this?
If so do I set up the tag pair as follows?
{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="1"}

{title}

  {body}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Basically setting the limit to one?

To sum it up, I dont quite understand the play between an archive template and a single template???

You can use a single template to display both the listing of entries and the individual entry. On EEinsider there is an article with this approach Simpler URLs with a Single Template

http://eeinsider.com/articles/simpler-expressionengine-urls-with-a-simple-template/

Check the tip

Hey guys thanks for the help and the link, I am reading it now.

If you haven’t done so already, reading Train-ee.com‘s free tutorial “building a small business website” is a fantastic primer for working in EE.