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So I’m new to the Expression Engine game and am using it to build a basic content website.

I’m wondering how to display a weblog entry by name. Is this possible?  I know that you can display with a limit and by entry_id, but I’m trying to use segments to control which weblog entry to display.

I’m trying to display my about section content by segment essentially.

Here’s my simple code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="about_ozone" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
{page_body}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Where my weblog “about_ozone” contains multiple entries of course.

I figured this would be simple, but perhaps I’m overlooking something or a better way to implement.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

You mention segments but don’t give an example of a typical URL with the segments…So, I’ll give a general example…

Typical URL:
http://www.example.com/index.php/templateGroup/template/segment_3
http://www.example.com/index.php/templateGroup/template/url_title

Typical weblog:entries tag using a URL segment:
{weblog:entries weblog="about_ozone" limit="1" url_title=”{segment_3}”}

That combination would display 1 entry with the URL title found in segment #3 using a template from a templateGroup.

Does that help or am I missing what you’re after?

Thanks for your response, it just occurred me that my issue was the non-use of the url_title parameter in the weblog:entries tag.  Essentially it is the “name” I was looking for.

Ah, to be a novice.

Thanks again for the help, I’m finding that the simpler things are harder at my current stage…

It’s always the simple things 😊
Good luck with your site!

One more quick question.

If I’m using a line of code as you suggested:

{weblog:entries weblog=“about_ozone” limit=“1” url_title=”{segment_3}”}

If segment_3 doesn’t exist, is it treated like segment_2?  Aka, do segment variables roll down so to speak.

It seems to be working fine but I want to make sure I’m not using seriously bad logic.

Ha, it actually doesn’t work as I thought.  Nevermind the above, I thought I came across something automated, but it’s just normal as it should be.

What do your links/urls look like?

Here’s what I’m trying to do:

I have segment levels on my about page

//my general about page
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone 

//my sub content
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/news
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/privacy_policy

//my “who we are” sub content
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/who_we_are/overview
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/who_we_are/people_profiles
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/who_we_are/animal_profiles

The sub content is controlled my a left nav within the about page.
What I’m trying to do is only use one Weblog about_ozone to hold the content for all three of these levels as they are very similar.

Thus, to access them it will be something like:
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="about_ozone" limit="1" url_title="{if segment_3 != ""}{segment_3}{if:else}{if segment_2 != ""}{segment_2}{if:else}{segment_1}{/if}{/if}” disable=“categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks”}
{page_body}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Can you do something like this?

Answering out of order…

What I’m trying to do is only use one Weblog about_ozone to hold the content for all three of these levels as they are very similar.

First, just to make sure there is understanding, weblogs are just data containers, what’s displayed is controlled via weblog tags in templateGroups/templates that are called through the url.

Can you do something like this?

Don’t think (almost positive) you can’t put conditionals within the weblog:entries tag.

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Using EE native (normal) functionality…

//my general about page
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone

Will display the index template in the about_ozone template group

//my sub content
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/news
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/privacy_policy

Will normally display the news or privacy_policy templates within the about_ozone template group

//my “who we are” sub content
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/who_we_are/overview
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/who_we_are/people_profiles
http://localhost:8888/ee/index.php/about_ozone/who_we_are/animal_profiles

Will normally display (using the url_tile) the single entry “overview” entry (etc) in the who_we_are template within the about_ozone template group

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Based on your attempted conditionals, are you trying to display all this content through just one template or are you going to have index, privacy_policy and who_we_are templates within the about_ozone template group?

I am attempted to display them all in one about_ozone template within my default site group.  It sounds like it would make more sense to parse out an about_ozone template group with templates for who_we_are, news, and privacy policy like you said.  The who_we_are would then have 3 weblog entries which I can display with url_title.

I have a feeling I’m trying to over optimize for no reason in this case.

It’s always a balance between optimizing with a minimum of templates and just fighting the system. You can actually run a whole site through one template (Rick Ellis did once) but it can get unwieldily with all the conditionals. I’ve gone both ways - too many templates and too few. The natural EE system is templateGroup/template/something, if you work within that structure, a lot of things are automatic. Just remember, weblogs = content/data and templates = url/display/presentation.

Werd.  Will do, and thanks much

Did I actually help or answer your question? I got somewhat distracted here at work :-(

I may have missed it while scanning through this thread, but something to make sure of when linking to the template that dynamically pulls in the weblog data is to use {url_title_path=""}.  This will automatically append the url_title to the end of your url structure.

If you use {path=""} variable, you’ll need to rely on the url_title= parameter to pull in the specific entry.

Make sense?

PXLated - Yes you helped, and thanks.

StephenSlater - Yes, it does make sense, I will investigate utilizing url_title_path in my implementation. I’ll be sure to holla back if I have any questions 😊