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Hello Everyone, my first post in the forum.

I’ve been working with EE for a while now, and I absolutely love it. There is one thing I’m struggling now, and I can’t seem to find the explanation anywhere…

I’m working on this site, and I have several pages with their own template. Let’s say the page is called ‘about’. I have a template in the group site, thats called ‘about.html’. So the link to this page is: http://www.example.com/site/about
The about template has a couple of blocks like this with different channels:

{exp:channel:entries channel="quotes" sort="asc" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
  // do something nice with the quotes
{/exp:channel:entries}

So far so good. The problem is that I was hoping to give the user some control over the page, So I created a page with the page module. This is because I use the SEO Lite plugin to give the user control over the meta-tags and title. The custom URL I created for the page is http://www.example.com/about (so without the ‘/site’). The page uses the same template (the site/about.html)

Sorry for the long intro, but what I don’t get is:
When I go to http://www.example.com/site/about the page works as it should be. The meta-tags and title tags from the page-module work, and all the other code works.

When I go to http://www.example.com/about it doesn’t load any information from the channel:entries tags. So it DOES get the data from the page-module (the title and metatags), but nothing is being shown withing ANY other channel:entries tag. Is this supposed to work like this? And could you tell me what would be a good method to create something like this?

Thanks in advance! And sorry about the long post 😉

So in short: I can’t use the channel:entries tag on a Page created with the Page-module?

OK, solved by the helpful EE-people on twitter! I forgot the dynamic=“off” bit on the channel:entries-tags… :/

Hello Silo,

I am happy to hear that the community on Twitter was able to help you out!

That dynamic=“off” is a common one.

If you need anything else, please just let us know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,