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I have 6 news articles. I would like to structure the first 2 as featured and the remaining 4 as smaller sublinks. Is there any way to do this with a single call for the latest 6 entries, as opposed to calling 2 and then calling 4 with the offset?

Hi astuteo,

If it’s always just 6 entries broken up into 2 and 4 then yes you could do something like this :

{exp:channel:entries
 channel="default_site"
 limit="6"
 disable="member_data|trackbacks|categories|category_fields|pagination"}

{if count == "1" OR count == "2"}
Markup for items 1 & 2…
{if:else}
Markup for other 4 items here…
{/if}

{/exp:channel:entries}

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Cool, thanks! So follow-up question, is that any more efficient/faster etc than making two separate calls with exp:channel:entries tags?

Hiya,

I would say it’s definitely more efficient yes as there will be less database calls to the system.

If you want to find out if it is indeed faster / more efficient though you could code up two different templates with the two separate methods in them and turn on Template Profiler to see how long / how many queries each method makes though.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks, brother. Will do.

Glad Mark was able to help you out, astuteo! Let us know if there’s anything we can do to help.