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I’m trying to extract the {url_title} of the current page (I’m using the official Static Pages module) and then assigning that to a variable, {blogname}.

However, it seems it doesn’t work? Is it possible to take a {url_title} value and assign that to a variable, so I can pass that variable as the “weblog” name in a {exp:weblog:entries} tag?

{assign_variable:blogname="{exp:weblog:entries weblog="static_pages" show_pages="yes" rdf="off" disable="trackbacks"}{url_title}{/exp:weblog:entries}"}

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{blogname}" sort="asc" dynamic="off"}
...blah blah
{/exp:weblog:entries}

I’m still trying to wrap my head around variables in EE, it’s all very confusing to me. Help and/or clarification would be much appreciated!

44sunsets, url_title is the title of an entry. EE “knows” what to do with it.

When you assign an entry to a “page” you can have a single entry page that already has the weblog=“whatever” tag in it.

But more importantly, how many weblogs are you using, and how are you using the Pages module?

Basically I’m using this code on a template for an image slideshow page.

I’ll be creating a lot more weblogs—basically, for each new slideshow page I’ll be creating a weblog with the same name as that page’s {url_title}.

For example, the current page might be called “Family Vacation Slideshow” and have a {url_title} of “familyvacation”, so I’ll create a weblog with short name of “familyvacation” and all my individual images for the slideshow are stored as posts within that weblog.

I’m using the official Pages Module in a normal capacity… i.e. certain pages will be designated slideshow pages, so they will use the slideshow template instead of my normal static content template. A slideshow page will still display normal Pages Module static content, but it also displays a JavaScript slideshow directly after the content.

Not sure if that makes sense—if it’s still unclear, please let me know!

I think parse order will jam you up with that one.  Er- can you make the url_title match a specific segment of the static url- then just pull that segment out a la:

exp:weblog:entries weblog="{segment_1}" sort="asc" dynamic="off"}

That’s likely how I’d handle it.

That’s very much for your help, Sue and Robin. I ended up using URL segment variables to do the trick. Still learning the ropes, but I’ve been able to get things working quite smoothly so I’m very pleased 😊

Woot!  Glad you got it squared away.