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Hi,

I have been doing Ryan Ireland’s {great} EE tutorials and I wanted to try a tweak on one of the lessons. This is not a support question for them but what should be a common help request I hope.

Having created a Sand Alone Entry Form, the post, once approved, displays on the home page at the bottom of the page in the “Letters To The Editor” section, link to the site here. What’s not covered in the tut are two real world situations: if someone writes a lengthy article it would break the design, and the typesize is smaller so it should have a link to display the entire letter on its own page. So I limited the word count and put a Read More link to fix the design prob but one problem - the link doesn’t load the specific letter, only the latest entry.

I thought the solution might be entry_id but I can’t seem to find any support on how that’s implemented in this code block. Do I need to generate a number at the entry and then call it somehow?

This is the code from the page you’re viewing (through above link):

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="letters_to_editor" limit="3" disable="comments|trackbacks"}
    <div id="{switch="lcol|mcol|rcol"}">
    <h4>{title}</h4>
<p>    </p><h5><span class="by">From</span> {author}</h5>
<p>    {exp:word_limit total="20"}<br />
    {letter_body}<br />
    {/exp:word_limit}<br />
    <a href="http://{path=news_articles/letter_view}">Read more</a><br />
    </div><br />
    {/exp:weblog:entries}

Grateful for any help.
Pete

Instead of using path, use url_title_path. That’ll add the url_title to the url and allow the single entry page to show the entry depending on which url_title is passed to it.

Does that help?

That fixed it!

…I can see why understanding paths in ee is so critical.

Thank you again, and for the prompt reply!
Much appreciated. 😊

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