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[gnome]

I have a news articles list displayed:

$articles = $pages->find("template=template-news, sort=-newsDate, limit=5");

Now I need to have a new page which shows some (but not all) of the news articles. What would be the best/easiest way to achieve this?

Thanks!

[Exceptionz Project]

Did you read this thread?

http://processwire.com/talk/topic/22-how-to-build-a-news-page/

[diogo]

Depends on what news you want to appear there. Random? Latest highlights?

For latest highlights for instance, you could put a "highlight" checkbox on the news template, and call the last five like this:

$highlights = $pages->find("template=template-news, sort=-newsDate, highlight=1, limit=5");

[onjegolders]

Gnome, sounds like you just need another template with exactly the same code as you have above but change the "find" selectors.

Which pages do you want to include/exclude?

If you can't filter them in your "find" method, you can use an "if statement".

Eg:

$articles = $pages->find("template=template-news, sort=-newsDate, limit=5");
foreach ($articles as $article) {
if ($article->my_field != "") {
 // show page stuff
}
}

[gnome]

I think this

$highlights = $pages->find("template=template-news, sort=-newsDate, highlight=1, limit=5");

is what I need.

Thanks to all!