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I want to include on all of my templates a news feed that displays the 3 most recent news items.

I then want the user to click on *read more* to link through to the full story.

What I have on this include is:

<h1>latest news</h1>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" limit="3"}
        <h2>{entry_date format="%d %M, %Y"}</h2>
<p>        {title}<br />
         {if allow_comments} <br />
<a href="http://{url_title_path=">read more…</a><br />
{/if}</p>

<p>        <br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}

I then have:

{embed="tutorial/news_snippet"}

on my template.

unfortunately, this doesn’t work.

any ideas what’s wrong?

Cheers,
S

Hi there Steven,

Have you tried adding the dynamic=“off” parameter to your weblog tag?

Hopefully that should do it for you. If not then if you can let us know in what way it isn’t working then that would be of a little more help 😉

Best wishes,

Mark

no that’s not working either.

This is the page I’m working on:

http://www.christatwork.org.uk/dev/index.php?/tutorial/index/

as you can see the news item (only 1 of them at the moment) displays OK - the issue is linking through to the article in it’s entirety. The *read more* hyperlink doesn’t appear to be linking properly.

Oops sorry didn’t see the mistake in the code above.

Try this :

<a href="http://{url_title_path=tutorial/comments}" title="{title}">read more…</a>

You had an extra bracket in there and an extra speech mark. I also converted your dots to an ellipsis just because I’m a picky monster 😉

Hope that works?

Best wishes,

Mark

sweet as mate - that worked like a charm

No problem 😉

Sorry I missed it first time. Wasn’t too sure what was not working though so that’s my excuse 😉 Plus the fact I only got about 2 hours sleep last night 😊

Any more problems just give us all a shout.

Best wishes,

Mark