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Sometimes a missing closing HTML tag will “hide” content from displaying but you’ll see in in the rendered source.

I don’t think the title_permalink variable is the root cause.  It sounds more like the entries loop isn’t returning more than one entry.

Ditch everything except for the channel:entries loop and the {title} variable.

So have, in a test template:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news"}
{title} 

{/exp:channel:entries}

That returned one title, but it should have returned both titles in the channel

however when I changed “news” to “test” it returned both titles in the test channel

Okay I have dumbed it way down.

The blog index has this code:

{exp:channel:entries channel="test"}
{title}

{test_excerpt}

{test_body}

{/exp:channel:entries}

“news” is the template group and “article” is the template that the title_permalink should resolve to.  There are two entries in the “test” channel.

The article template consists of the following code:

{embed="includes/head"}

{exp:channel:entries channel="test" limit="1" dynamic="no" status="Open"}
{title}

{test_body}
{/exp:channel:entries}

There is no other code in the blog’s index or the article template

When I click on the title for “The First Article”  the url resolves to

http://frank4mv.com/news/article/the-first-article

But the text is the text for the second article.

The Second Article
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.

If I click on the the title for “The Second Article” the url resolves to http://frank4mv.com/news/article/the-second-article.

And the text is correct

The Second Article
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.

Try it out for yourself at http://frank4mv.com/news

OK - so the index template loop is now returning all entries?

If so, now start incrementally adding code back in.

I didn’t see how you were creating links to the article template, but in addition to title_permalink you can also use:

<a href="http://{url_title_path=news/article}">{title}</a>

Should be exactly the same result as title_permalink but I prefer this variable as it’s clearer to me what it does - which is append the entry url_title onto the path you specify.

Actually It’s still only returning one entry at two different urls.  Which means it’s returning the most recent entry regardless of the url which is what it’s been doing all along.  To see what I mean, use the link to the site I’ve been providing. 

What I’m saying is that even with the code stripped way down, no headers, no footers, no nothing, the title_permalink is returning garbage.  So the problem must lie somewhere else.  A setting, some of the code in Expression Engine itself.  Somewhere else.

Note that the links are correct - they have different url titles. 

Take “dynamic=“no” out of the article template code.

You *want* that template to be url-dependent.

Here’s a screencast explaining what it’s doing:

http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/dynamic-off-explained

Also - do you have duplicate content in each entry?  I’m assuming that’s the case.  If so don’t do that..makes it hard to verify things..😉

Taking out the dynamic=“no” did the trick, Michael.  Thanks!

I must have messed up the display data somewhere when chunking out the page.  Dang thing was driving me nuts.  I hate wasting entire days like that, but I guess it’s a part of it.

I appreciate the url and the code you shot my way.  That was very generous!

I hope you’ll give me a heads up if you’re ever in the Orange County area.  I’ll buy you a beer.  And take your class if that’s what you’re doing here. 😊

Dan

Cool - glad we finally got it sorted. 

We sold our house this week and should be on the road again in late May - so who knows?  We didn’t see much of South California - but sure hope the CA roads improve before we get back there..😉

You mean traffic-wise?  Or the fact that they are falling apart?  Five largest economy in the world and the roads crumble, the schools suck, and we’re near the bottom in terms of literacy.  Still I hope you can make it to South Orange county.  Stop on way to San Diego.  San Diego is a beautiful place!

Falling apart. Kept being surprised I had a trailer left back there…:gulp:

Ouch, not good to lose a trailer.

Hi Dan,

Nice name!

Big thanks Mike for churning through this with Dan. Awesome as always.

Since Mike got you all sorted out, is there anything else I can assist you with?

Cheers,

Hi Dan,

Thanks, but I think I’m good to go.  Unless of course you have $100,000 lying around your place, or a brand new Mac Air so I can code down at Starbucks…

😊

Dan

Hey Dan!

I wish!

If you need anything in the future, just hit us up in a new thread!

Cheers!