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I’m working on a blog and I’d like a site news bar to appear at the top of it, but I want it only to appear if theres news. I’ve the weblog for it to only display one entry, but I’m not sure how cause the div and entry to appear only if there’s a current entry. Naturally I’d either set an entry to expire or expire it manually.

The code I have is this:
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="sitenews" orderby="date" status="open" sort="desc" limit="1" show_expired="no"
show_future_entries="no" disable="categories|custom_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
{if count =="1"}
<div id=“header”>

<div id=“sitenewsbar”>

Site News {current_time format="%M. %j%S, %Y:"} 

{body}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

</div>
{/if}

But all that does is show Site News {body}

Any suggestions on how to get this done?

Hey Brandon,

Remove custom_fields from the disable= bit of your entries tag.  That’ll bring back the actual content of your “site news” posts.

Chris

If I understand you right, can you use a conditional; so that the complete tag (inc HTML) only appears when there’s something to show?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="sitenews" orderby="date" status="open" sort="desc" limit="1" show_expired="no" 
show_future_entries="no" disable="categories|custom_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"} 
<!-- {if count =="1"} -->
<div id="header"> 

{if body}
     <div id="sitenewsbar"> 
              Site News {current_time format="%M. %j%S, %Y:"}
              {body}
     </div><!-- s//itenewsbar -->
{/if}
</div><!-- h//eader -->

{/exp:weblog:entries} 

<!-- /div -->
<!-- {/if} -->

You can set expire dates in any number of ways, not least when you create the article in the first place.

JiF

Cool, a combination of both suggestions solved the problem. Need to turn custom_fields back on AND check for the presence of {body}. Thanks guys!