Add Blog excerpt to home page

Kirby 3
1

I would like to add the latest blog excerpt to a home page and link to the full post. Could you point me in the direction where I could find out how to do this?
Many thanks.

2
3

Yes, I have read that. It just describes how to create a blog and articles not to say have a blog excerpt on a different page.

4

With page('blog') you get the blog page, the rest is the same as on the original page.

5

I have used what I have which is a bit different to the code for creating a blog and it does not work. I get the error message, This page is currently offline due to an unexpected error…

The basic code that I am using for blog.php is:

<?php foreach ($articles as $article): ?>
   
	 <h1 class="blog-title"><?= $article->title()->link() ?></h1>
	<time class="blog-date"><?= $article->date()->toDate("d F Y") 
<?= $article
  ->text()
  ->excerpt(400, false)
  ->kirbytext() ?>
 
<?php endforeach; ?>
6

But that doesn’t tell us what you are trying in home.php… You are using $articles here, which is probably defined in your home.php controller as $page->children()->listed().

In the home template, you would replace this with page('blog')->children()->listed().

7

You are using $articles here, which is probably defined in your home.php controller as $page->children()->listed().

No, I don’t have that. What I have is the code that I provided, basically. That’s it.

8

I’m sorry, but this $articles variable must be defined somewhere, it doesn’t exist out of the blue.

But in any case, if in your home.php template you define

$articles = page('blog')->children()->listed();

foreach ($articles as $article) {
  // you can do the same as in your blog template
}