SWWAP Posted January 23 Posted January 23 I'll start by stating that the version of Pages I am using is about two years old. (v4.4.10) That said, I can't find anything that suggests it's any better now. I'll explain... I've been an Invision user for probably 18+ years now. I really love most aspects of it. But there's one specific reoccurring theme that always drives me insane. Some very basic layout features that so many other suites offer are just absent from Invision. Here's my number one example, with Pages... 1a. There is no way that I can find to easily change the layout of articles as they show within categories. I want the list of articles within a category to look like they do when you actually click on them. Not truncated versions that you need to click "Read More" to see. This has been a feature of practically every one of the dozens of other CMS systems I've tried. Why isn't that something I can do easily here!? 1b. On that same note, if I want to show 'featured' articles in a block on my homepage, the only way I can find to do that easily is with a feed of article 'titles'. I don't want just clickable titles, I want these featured articles to show in their full glory just as I described above. Full untruncated articles. Why is this so hard!? I've done SO MUCH searching for solutions to this over the years and now I find myself falling down the same rabbit hole yet again.... "invision power show full articles in category view" "...show full articles in blocks" ...etc... I have found so many other people that have similar needs. I've found very few solutions, and they've all been only 'kind of' like what I've wanted and never really laid out in a very easy to follow way. My ADHD cannot handle so many small breadcrumb sized clues over dozens of pages of discussion, partial solutions that needs so much tweaking, etc. Can anyone please (PLEASE I'M BEGGING) point me to an easy to follow solution for this? Thank you!!! Chris59 1
opentype Posted January 23 Posted January 23 You describe correctly how it works. The categories and the feed blocks in 4.x come with only one stock template and that uses this kind of generic “forum listing” mode. Pages allows for custom templates to be created (or installed) for those sections, but that would be a custom job. There is no other “easy solution”. Maybe things change in 5.x. Marc and SWWAP 2
SWWAP Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 15 hours ago, opentype said: You describe correctly how it works. The categories and the feed blocks in 4.x come with only one stock template and that uses this kind of generic “forum listing” mode. Pages allows for custom templates to be created (or installed) for those sections, but that would be a custom job. There is no other “easy solution”. Maybe things change in 5.x. Thank you for the reply. It's kind of nuts going from something free like WordPress or Joomla that does this... to something paid like Invision that does not. 😕 Do you know of any posted solutions to this? Or even something pretty close? I keep trying to reword my searches hoping to get lucky, but I can't believe I'm not finding anything yet. I would think this would be a very popular request. Thank again!
SWWAP Posted January 24 Author Posted January 24 21 hours ago, opentype said: You describe correctly how it works. The categories and the feed blocks in 4.x come with only one stock template and that uses this kind of generic “forum listing” mode. Pages allows for custom templates to be created (or installed) for those sections, but that would be a custom job. There is no other “easy solution”. Maybe things change in 5.x. I found this post that seems like it might be in the ballpark... I found the html code from your reply... ...but replacing it as you suggested, removes the article contents from the preview, as opposed to expanding it. Is this something you think you might be able to expand on to help my situation? Thank you again!
SWWAP Posted January 24 Author Posted January 24 (edited) @opentype Update: Thanks to the post and your reply that I referenced above, I figured out what did the trick to show full articles instead of truncated previews for articles listed in category view! The only difference is that I had to use... {$row->_content|raw} ...instead of... {$record->_content|raw} Thank you! Now I just have to figure out how to adapt it for the "Featured Articles" feed block. Edited January 24 by SWWAP
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