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Hi guys, probably a newbie issue here, but I’m building a portfolio site and I am looking to keep some content at the top of the site that is always there on every page. The content seems to show up on all my “top-level” pages, like home and about, but when I go to a project/detail page it seems that it can no longer find that channel entry. Do I need to reference it differently in the detail pages? Thanks so much if anyone can help me!

It would help if you can post some of the code on your pages ...

<div id="quote">
        {exp:channel:entries limit="1" channel="simple_content" url_title="quote"}
            {content}
        {/exp:channel:entries}        
</div>

That is the code that works on the “top-level” but not in project/detail.

<div id="quote">
        {exp:channel:entries limit="1" channel="simple_content" url_title="quote"}
            {content}
        {/exp:channel:entries}        
</div>

That is the code that works on the “top-level” but not in project/detail.

Have you tried looking at the path settings?

Are you using a custom status to sticky your post?

If so, try this:

<div id="quote">
        {exp:channel:entries limit="1" channel="simple_content" url_title="quote" status="not closed"}
            {content}
        {/exp:channel:entries}        
</div>

More reading:
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/parameters.html#par_status

What you’re probably looking for here will be the dynamic=“no” Channel parameter so that you can use that tag without the URL influencing what is shown.

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hey guys, I was able to make it show up by changing the post to sticky and adding the dynamic=“no” channel parameter Mark suggested. Thanks so much for your help!

Just as a quick note, adding in the sticky isn’t necessarily required here. If as you are doing is supplying the url_title to the Channel tag then the dynamic=“no” parameter should really be the only other item required here as that will then ensure that the tag only returns what you ask it to.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks Mark. Feel free nikkiemarie to start a new thread if you have any more questions