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Using Editing Interface: Index Template Tags
WebCrimson's Page Template tags are pretty straightforward.
Use This Sample Code:
  
  
by
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And You'll Get a Page That Looks Like:
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Article Index:
Like our Page Template example above, we want to display several elements:
But we also want to repeat those three elements over and over again, so we can create an Index of the last 10 Articles.
In order to pull that off, we're going to need some extra template tags just for Index Templates.
Introducing ENTRYBLOCK
In order to achive that repeating effect in our Index Template, we can just wrap the code we want to repeat in some entryblock tags.
whatever HTML you'd like to repeat
That's all there is to it. Here's an example of that code for a Index Template for Articles:
Grouping Entries by Date
Sometimes, you may want to group your entries by years, months, or weeks.
For example, maybe you noticed in that Article Index how two of the articles were in June 2001. The date repeats itself, which seems a bit redundant when you think about it.
Perhaps instead, you'd prefer your Article Index to look something like this:
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June 2001
Title #1
Summary #1
by Author #1
Title #2
Summary #2
by Author #2
July 2001
Title #3
Summary #3
by Author #3
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See how the two entries in June 2001 are grouped together? That's hard to pull off with just a standard entryblock.
We'll have to add a new tag to the mix that we call a dateblock.
Here's some sample code to show how to do just that:
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Use This Sample Code:
  
 
by
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And You'll Get a Page That Looks Like:
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June 2001
Title #1
Summary #1
by Author #1
Title #2
Summary #2
by Author #2
July 2001
Title #3
Summary #3
by Author #3
etc. | |
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