Blog question

Hi RomanArt,

Yes that's right.  I can go to http://sitename/blog?tag=gigs and all is fine, but when I navigate to page 2 using the pagination, the URL goes to http://sitename/blog?page=2 (the gig tags has gone).  Does this happen with you?

Ideally I'd really like to know if there is a PHP solution, which can be put into a template - It would mean that the URL's would be much cleaner and that different template pages for different categories.

Thanks for your help!
Mike

Hello, I worked out what my problem was - I was using Aryandhani's excellent Portfolio theme and the blog plug in is modified and I think that part is different.  With the default theme, pagination works.

But - I'm having an idea.  In blog.plugin.php, you can define the $parent_page_name = 'blog'; (line 35).  Can the parent_page_name variable be set to slug of the current page?

Awilum (hello!)  Maybe you can help too?

Thanks everyone!

Thanks very much - I will wait.  In the meantime, do you know what the php syntax is to get the current page's slug?

Thanks very much,  I have tried changing (blog.plugin.php) from

$parent_page_name = 'blog';  to
$parent_page_name = Page::slug();

But is not working.  Is this syntax allowed?

No problem. I've found a workaround for now... it's not very elegant

I haves duplicated and rename the plug-in folder (to 'gigs' in my case) and then also renamed any files inside (eg. blog.plugin.php to gigs.plugin.php and blog.manifest.xml to gigs.manifest.xml), finding and replacing text in any of the .xml and .php files from 'blog' & 'Blog', with 'gigs' & 'gigs'. 

Finally, I made two new templates (gigs.template and gigs-post.template) and edited instances of 'blog' to 'gigs' again...

I now have a blog plug in, but also a separate gigs plug-in which I use for the band's tour dates.  I can style the templates differently too.  I'm sure there's a much easier and better way of doing it though!

Mike

Wow! That's how you are going it too?  I made a lucky guess then. It is all working well now... now to find a nice html5 audio player.  Is there one built in to monstra?  Thanks for your help!