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I’m working on converting a large static site into ExpressionEngine. It currently has lots of pages which are in lots of folders and sub-folders. I would like to retain the existing URL structure as much as possible. Some examples below:

/about-us/
/contact-us/
/private-services/
/private-services/broking/
/private-services/broking/risk-management/
/private-services/broking/pricing/
/institutional-services/broking/risk-management/
/institutional-services/broking/pricing/

(I don’t mind about the /index.php/ at the start)

I was advised to look at using the Pages module so I started down that road but now I’ve hit a stumbling block.

I have a main content section which is driven from a weblog called “main-content”. Using the Pages module allows me to assign a URL to the published content in that weblog so that it appears depending on the URL in the address bar.

On the right-hand side of my template is a “Latest news” box which shows 3 snippets of the latest news articles. I want this to show on every page but whenever the Pages module is active and main-content is assigned to a particular URL the news items no longer appear.

Here is a mockup I’ve done to help illustrate my problem.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32639490@N06/3047897622/sizes/o/

Is there something I’m doing wrong?
Is this even possible?

I’m open to any suggestions.

Many thanks,

Rich

I think what you’re looking for is the dynamic=“off” tag.

For the latest new section do something like.

{exp:weblog:entries limit="3" weblog="news" dynamic="off"}
{title}
{summery}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Without the dynamic=“off” the weblog is trying to filter base on the URL. Hope that help!

The link to the docs: http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/weblog/parameters.html#par_dynamic

Thanks for that. Tried it and it didn’t work in this instance.

I didn’t want to give up there so had a look around the parameters. I came across the ‘show_pages’ parameter:

http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/weblog/parameters.html#par_show_pages

This seems to have done the trick.

Code below:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" orderby="news-date" sort="desc" limit="3" show_pages="no"}

<div class="news-item">
<span><strong>{news-date format="%d.%m.%y"}</strong><br>
<a href="/index.php/news/">{exp:char_limit total="40"}{news-heading}{/exp:char_limit} >></a>
</span>
</div>

{/exp:weblog:entries}

Thanks for your help,

Rich

Glad you got it figured out.