I would like to show, on my sidebar, the most recent posts in my Authentic Church category, which I have set up as a sub-category under Church of the Saviour
Perhaps also even show the first couple of lines from the post aside from the title.
I would also like to customize the Archives Template so that when one of the Authentic Church posts is being displayed, a different template is shown from the default. (This might even prove to be handy for other uses, like showing related info in the sidebars of those pages, like the Church of the Sacviour Category, or Books, or whatever.
Any ideas?
Eric, Dave
Thanks guys. I tried Dave's suggestion on the display of Category posts, and as you can see that works. Thanks Dave. The template thing is still up in the air. I'm so pathetic at style sheets!
And here is to show just one category. You will have to make your own title for the category, as I am not sure how to pull just the category for the titles. Just replace "blog questions" with the title of the category you want to show, and replace the "3" with the number of posts you want listed. Hope this makes sense.
<MTCategories>
<MTEntries lastn="3" category="blog questions">
<div><a href="<$MTEntryLink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a></div>
</MTEntries>
</MTCategories>
Okay... here is a link that tells you how to do different templates for different categories.
No...its easier than that. Let me take a look and try to get back to you on it. Your first request is definitely possible, I am not as sure about your second request.
If you knew PHP and MySQL and your apache handlers were set to parse .html files as php files, you could just query out the entries from the database.
Pertaining to your other question, I don't quite know how to mess with the templates that much yet, but I think it could be done.
If you want, try to catch me online this weekend and I might be able to walk you through the first part of your query.
Peace,
Eric