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THis seems so basic but I can’t find anything on how…

I want to provide to list weblogpostings in a brief table with a link to open each in a page only displaying that entry

Read more
generates this URL )for event_three) but it doesn’t display that entry if it’s not the first entry.

http://nyimc.pmhclients.com/index.php/site/event/single_entry/event_three/

I can limit the template to one entry but it’s not displaying the entry in the URL

i can’t find anything on single_entry. So I am assuming that’s not the way…

Thanks
-Stuart

This is very basic. You need to do some basic reading.

Dissecting the Default Templates is an excellent series of articles, as is The Importance of Semantics. I think you will enjoy both very much!

Placing your code between weblog:entries tags but removing the extra item will automatically generate the correct permalinks.

<a href="http://{title_permalink=template_group/template}">Read more</a>

Then the template where you are “reading more” needs a weblog:entries limit=“1” arrangement, with the custom fields listed below.

{exp:weblog:entries limit="1"}
{title}
{body}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Terry

Thanks, Terry

It can be a struggle for a non-programmer to work with something like expressionengine. I read all those docs you mentioned. Sometimes just syntax can be a challenge, In this case I found someone using “single-entry” and thought it the way to go even though i couldn’t find anything on it.

Your help greatly appreciated. Without this forum I - and others in my shoes - would be lost, unable to use this great application…

Stuart

Well, that one item had me stumped for weeks, so I certainly understand!! It never occurred to me that it would fill the url automatically and send it to the template just like that. (The “read more” template - a single entry “article” or “comments” template - uses the URL to dynamically assign the article… and it is smart enough to know which weblog that article came from, since they all have unique id’s).

Keep on pluggin - it is deeper into programming than many ever thought they would go for many, but it is made so much easier by the ExpressionEngine methods that it becomes ‘interesting’ very quickly!

Terry