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dimeco
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Nov 17, 2009, 9:28 AM

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I know we can include the "newest articles" for all topics...

but I was wondering if there's a way to include the "newest articles for all topics" EXCEPT a few?

i.e., I've got a quote in for some custom work (likely getting the CMS builder).

But in the meantime, I need to have something online for our "featured" authors section I'm working on.

Here's what I was going to do (in the meantime):

Set up categories that are called "Featured".

These will be specifically for our featured authors obviously (who have accounts - "guest" users won't be able to submit there).

I'll be hardcoding the main page to *only* show the featured topics in the order I want them daily (at least till the consulting stuff is done with CMS builder ;) )

However, after that, I will be including a link to the "all topics" page, which will include all regular guest author topics.

How do I do that (simply), while excluding the Featured categories? (No sense repeating that content lol).

Amber


Donna
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Nov 18, 2009, 4:15 PM

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Re: [dimeco] Newest articles with exception... [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Amber!

I'm not quite sure I get exactly what you're looking for, but tell me if I'm on the right track:

You want articles from just the Featured category to show up on your main page for now, until you can switch that to something else easily at a later date?

If so ... could you simply set your main globalIndex to only show the Featured category right now? You'd just go into the Global Index publish rule and change the category option to "Include" and select only the Featured categories. would that work for you? Or you could exclude the categories you DON'T want to appear?

Let me know if that's what you're looking for. :)

Donna

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dimeco
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Nov 18, 2009, 4:52 PM

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Re: [Donna] Newest articles with exception... [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Donna,

No actually its the opposite :)

I'll be hard coding the articles I want featured...

I need to get the *other* articles (guest) showing without including the featured.

Amber


ross
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Dec 9, 2009, 2:50 PM

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Re: [dimeco] Newest articles with exception... [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Amber

What you could try doing is setup a new publish rule for this list of articles and sort it by category. If you are saying that your featured articles are in both the "regular" and "featured" category they should sort differently than the ones that are just in the "regular" category.

Does that make sense? I don't quite know if it will be an reverse sort or not though so you'll want to try both.

Give it a shot and let me know how you make out. Thanks!
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