topic Re: Blog Recent Posts + Featured Post on Top in CMS Development

Blog Recent Posts + Featured Post on Top

GWilkinson — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 03:44:53 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to display a blog listing where the post tagged "Featured" is always listed first and then the rest of the posts are underneath.

what I want to do is something like this:

{% set featured_posts = blog_tags('default', 'Featured', 1) %} {% set recent_posts_limit = 5 %} {% set excluded_post_id = 0 %} {% if featured_posts.posts|length %} {% set excluded_post_id = featured_posts.posts[0].id %} {% set recent_posts = blog_recent_posts('default', recent_posts_limit - 1, exclude_ids=excluded_post_id) %} {% else %} {% set recent_posts = blog_recent_posts('default', recent_posts_limit) %} {% endif %} <div class="recent-posts"> {% if featured_posts.posts|length %} {% for post in featured_posts.posts %} <div class="featured-post"> <h3><a href="{{ post.absolute_url }}">{{ post.name }}</a></h3> <p>{{ post.post_summary }}</p> <span>Posted on {{ post.publish_date|datetimeformat('%Y-%m-%d') }}</span> </div> {% endfor %} {% endif %} {% for post in recent_posts.posts %} <div class="recent-post"> <h3><a href="{{ post.absolute_url }}">{{ post.name }}</a></h3> </div> {% endfor %}

But there is no exclude_ids. Ive seen a few examples with two loops but im not sure how to explicitly exclude a tag. I tried topics but am not using a module for this so I dont think that was working for me either.

Re: Blog Recent Posts + Featured Post on Top

Jaycee_Lewis — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:24:16 GMT

Hey, @GWilkinson 👋 I moved this over to our CMS developer community. I'd also like to invite some of our community members to the conversation — @BarryGrennan @JBeatty, do you have any tips you can share with @GWilkinson?

Thank you very much for taking a look! — Jaycee

Re: Blog Recent Posts + Featured Post on Top

GWilkinson — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 02:29:59 GMT

Thank you!

Re: Blog Recent Posts + Featured Post on Top

BarryGrennan — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:02:43 GMT

This should work:

{% set featured_posts = blog_recent_tag_posts("default", "featured", 1) %} {#featured is lowercase here as it's the slug #} {# also note we're using blog_recent_tag_posts to get the posts not blog_tags #} {% set normal_recent_posts = blog_recent_posts('default', 5) %} {% set featured_post_id = featured_posts[0].id %} {# we want to work out if the featured post would show in the normal 5 recent posts, so we create an array of their ids #} {% set post_array = [] %} {% for post in normal_recent_posts %} {% do post_array.append(post.id) %} {% endfor %} {# if the featured post is in the standard 5 we're going to add an extra post (6 total) so we can hide the featured in the loop #} {% if post_array is containing featured_post_id %} {% set displayed_recent_posts = blog_recent_posts('default', 6) %} {% else %} {% set displayed_recent_posts = blog_recent_posts('default', 5) %} {% endif %} FEATURED POSTS {% for post in featured_posts %} <div class="recent-post"> <h3><a href="{{ post.absolute_url }}">{{ post.name }}</a></h3> </div> {% endfor %} NORMAL POSTS {% for post in displayed_recent_posts %} {% unless post.id == featured_post_id %} <div class="recent-post"> <h3><a href="{{ post.absolute_url }}">{{ post.name }}</a></h3> </div> {% endunless %} {% endfor %}

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Re: Blog Recent Posts + Featured Post on Top

GWilkinson — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:43:44 GMT

Thank you! Worked perfectly