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I have a site working nicely (so far) that does the following:

- There are multiple weblog entries to a given template (“comms” template group, “news” template);

- I control how many news entries are displayed on the main “comms” page (3 most recent news entries, determined by the offset variable, showing only the first 10 words of each entry);

Problem is, I cannot figure out how to link to each entry. I have tried permalink and other methods described and I either get an “Invalid URI” or nothing.

Here’s the URL: http://ncif.pmhclients.com/index.php/comms/

I know how to do this in pMachine, but I’m missing something basic in EE and I can’t figure out what it is. Thanks!

Did you get it figured out? The links I clicked on your site seem to work. Most of the time issues like you describe are because the weblog paths aren’t set right in the CP.

Greetings,

No it’s not working…click on the “more” links in the right column of the URL I have in my first posting, you will get an “Invalid URI” page.

When you say having the paths set correctly in the CP what do you mean exactly? (I know CP means Control Panel) Please be specific as I have spent 6 hours on this, so clearly I am not getting it somewhere.

P.S. - I have a very great familiarity with pMachine, but (apparently) not with Exp Eng, so it’s doubly frustrating.

Thanks!

If you haven’t, its worthwhile to go through the Quick Start Tutorial as that will take you through the steps for setting up a read more page and links in the CP.

Ah, found it. The URLs aren’t formatted correctly. You probably have something like this:

<a href="http://ncif.pmhclients.com/index.php/comms/{url_title_path=comms/news}">More</a>

And should be more like this:

<a href="http://{url_title_path=comms/news}">More</a>

Please stay with me, I really appreciate it…but your suggestion is the code I have. Here it is:

      ../../../images/title_news2.jpg
      {exp:word_limit total="10"}{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" limit="1"}{mainContent}{/exp:weblog:entries}{/exp:word_limit}Read More
     
      {exp:word_limit total="10"}{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" limit="1" offset="1"}{mainContent}{/exp:weblog:entries}{/exp:word_limit} >more
     
      {exp:word_limit total="10"}{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" limit="1" offset="2"}{mainContent}{/exp:weblog:entries}{/exp:word_limit} >more

Is there some *really basic* thing I need to do about establishing the name of a weblog for a specific entry or something? In trying to solve this I keep thinking that I’ve forgotten a basic step in establishing a weblog and/or mapping it to a template.

Thanks!

Try moving the plugin tags to around *just* {mainContent} rather than around your entire weblog entries tag.  You also need the url_title_path variable inside the weblog entries tag for context.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" limit="1" offset="2"}
 {exp:word_limit total="10"}
{mainContent}
{/exp:word_limit}
<a href="http://{url_title_path=comms/news}"> >more</a>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Ok, Thanks! It gets me to the right entry, and I get my syntax error. But now there is a new problem introduced, which I will address in a new post to keep this one focused.

Thanks!