Single Entry Page q's

#1 / Jun 07, 2009 8:08am

Denidorm
15 posts

Hi,

Expression Engine is new for me, so forgive me my ‘noobish’ questions.

First, I’ve built my website on a template.
My problem is: how do I edit the template of the Single Entries?

I have a blog, and it would be handy to be able to change the page of the separate blogposts. Another thing, maybe related: only my main page is visible on Google. How can I add my different posts to Google?
Now the posts are visible on Google, only when the posts are on the front page. That way I’m missing a lot of traffic.

Thx in advance
#2 / Jun 08, 2009 8:26am

Denidorm
15 posts

Anyone?
#3 / Jun 08, 2009 10:02am
Boyink!
5011 posts
Hi…

You can usually figure out what template is being used by looking at your URL’s:
```
<a href="http://www.yoursitehere.com/index.php/template_group/template/url_title/">http://www.yoursitehere.com/index.php/template_group/template/url_title/</a>
```
I’m guessing the template is called “comments” or “detail”.

If the site is new it could be that Google just hasn’t caught up fully yet. I’ve had sites that take a couple of months to be fully indexed. If your single-entries are obviously linked from your index page there’s really nothing more you need do.
#4 / Jun 08, 2009 2:03pm

Denidorm
15 posts

Thanks for the reply.
My url’s look like this:

http://mysite.be/index.php/site/some_post_random_name/

site is just the name of the template group… So I guess that means he bases the template for an individual post on the index page. If that is the case, how can I change that?

Thanks
#5 / Jun 08, 2009 2:07pm

Boyink!
5011 posts

OK - so it looks like the index template is being re-used.

Can you post the code from that template?

There’s a couple of possibilities for how to change this, but it depends on how that template has been coded.

#6 / Jun 08, 2009 4:04pm

Denidorm

15 posts

Well, I just used one of the templates of expressionengine.
Code from the template:

{assign_variable:my_weblog="my_blog"}
{assign_variable:my_template_group="site"}

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='{stylesheet={my_template_group}/site_css}' />
<style type='text/css' media='screen'>@import "{stylesheet={my_template_group}/site_css}";</style>

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="{path={my_template_group}/rss_2.0}" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="{path={my_template_group}/atom}" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="afbeeldingen/favicon.ico"/>

</head>
<body>



<div id="content">
<div id="heaters">

</div>
               
<div id="blog">
<div id="niettehoog">


{exp:weblog:category_heading weblog="{my_weblog}"}
                                        <h2>{category_name}</h2>
<p>{if category_description}<br />
{category_description}<br />
{/if}<br />
{/exp:weblog:category_heading}</p>

<p>    <br />
                                        {exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="15" track_views="one" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}</p>

<p><div class="entry"><br />
    <br />
                                        {date_heading}<br />
 <br />
<h3 class="date">{entry_date format=' %l, %F %d, %Y '}</h3><br />
                                        {/date_heading}<br />
                                        </p>

<p><h2 class="title">{title}</h2><br />
{summary}</p>

<p>{body}</p>

<p><div class="posted">Posted by <a href="http://{profile_path=member/index}">{author}</a> on {entry_date format='%m/%d'} at {entry_date format='%h:%i %A'}</p>



<p><br />
                                        {categories}</p>

<p><a href="http://{path=site_index}">{category_name}</a> •<br />
                                        {/categories}</p>

<p>{if allow_comments}<br />
                                        ({comment_total}) <a href="http://{url_title_path=">Comments</a> •<br />
{/if}<br />
                             <br />
<a href="http://{title_permalink={my_template_group}/index}">Permalink</a>  </p>

<p><br />
</div><br />
</div></p>

<p><br />
{paginate}<br />
Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}<br />
{/paginate}<br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}</p>

<p></div>

I cut a bit here and there….

#7 / Jun 09, 2009 6:15pm

Denidorm
15 posts

help! 😉
#8 / Jun 09, 2009 8:38pm
Boyink!
5011 posts
Sorry…got swamped with client work.

This looks pretty straightforward which is good.

Essentially what you need to do is create another template - call it detail, comments etc that will serve as the single-entry template. You can copy this one as a starting point. Once the single-entry template is in place all the links on this index template will need to be updated to point to the single-entry template.
```
<a href="http://{title_permalink={my_template_group}/index}">Permalink</a>
```
Will change to
```
<a href="http://{title_permalink={my_template_group}/comments}">Permalink</a>
```
Etc.
#9 / Jun 10, 2009 5:44am

Denidorm
15 posts

Thank you very much, this did the trick (and pretty stupid of me not to see, it’s logic).

Thank you!
#10 / Jun 10, 2009 10:29am

Boyink!
5011 posts

Not a problem - glad it worked out.

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