OK but what I have is exactly what the Appleseed Daily blog sample shows.
So do I change “item.author.name” to “item.author” or add author name : “Mike Freeman” to the front matter?
If you have a Blog page on your website stay with RWClassic. They tell you it should work in Elements but it won´t work no matter what you do. There are far too many ways to do something wrong. And the option to edit your blog from outside isn’t working yet either.
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My point is that they should match. So pick author or author.name as your standard. Then reference as {{item.author}} or {{item.author.name}} depending upon what you chose.
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I’m pretty sure that once @dan is back from the holidays and starts to catch up with the forum, he’s going to ask you to upload the site so he can look at it, and you’ll get a fairly quick set of suggestions/fixes after that.
Yes, the CMS is still awkward to deal with. Miss one detail and it stops working. However, once the details have been dealt with, it’s then really just a matter of making sure your YAML is formatted correctly and moving .MD files into the right place.
The problem I’m dealing with right now is images. I’ve been referencing them two ways, and I think I’m going to need to just standardize on one to make sure I don’t make similar mistakes.
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Thom, Thanks for trying to help I do appreciate it! As mentioned previously, I’ve been stabbing in the dark for weeks.
It seems next to impossible to track down where the problem might be to get this working. It’s especially frustrating spending hours copying the sample blog and still not getting it to work here. I’ve noticed other things in the sample project that make no sense as to why it works there but not here. i.e. I had to hide the cms folder to keep it from showing as a menu item, the sample does not show that folder being hidden yet it does not show as a menu option.
Everything else on my site has been rebuilt in Elements and is looking good. I’d really like to launch the new site now but the blog is hanging everything up. That part is a total disaster!
We’re all still struggling a bit with the CMS for blogs. I’ve got a couple of things I’ve discovered that need a fix by Ben.
For you, the big thing will be to get the basic blog working first and foremost, and as I noted, I think a quick look by @dan will likely be the best bet for that.
My advice is to not try to do extended things at the moment (categories, selection via tags, similar posts, all that extended stuff). Just get the basic blog overview and blog post pages working, then practice populating new posts for awhile.
Thom, I finally got all the pages to show properly and work (what a pain!)!
Now how do I get the post titles to link to the posts?
very quick simple blog
might help it is the {{item.url}} required to create the link
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Steve thanks! I wish I had this video six weeks ago! I had to figure all that out.
I think I see the answer I need at about 5:20 in. The video is small here and a little difficult to see. Is it posted full size someplace?
just make full screen
in this one I set the {{item.url}}. link in the entire area rather than the title, this means the link covers the entire area
https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cms-image-driven/53466?u=upssjw
in the download the modal blog has just the flex using the {{item.url}}
It’s odd, but for whatever reason it won’t go into full screen for me here.
try in the browser, you can fullscreen with the square bottom right
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Eureka! I think it’s working!!!
Thanks Steve
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Yep. {{item.url}} is your friend. Just make sure you attach it to the right component.
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OK everything was working here using the browser preview so I went ahead and uploaded my site. However after uploading, the blog does not work! I just get a blank white page.
Thoughts/suggestions?
Try doing a re-publish all files to see if that makes a difference.
And check if you have to index files then normally you would need to delete the older one
The file setup I was able to get working here in the browser preview is setup with “blog.php” “index.php” would not work here. Should “blog.php” work on the live site?