Restrict pages section to exclude a template

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Ahoy!
I want editors to create first-level footer pages easily.
I have the site.yml blueprint split into the following sections:

  • Drafts
  • Unlisted
  • Listed
  • Footer-page (any status, should not appear above)

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In order to have the pages of type template in the last section, I use

footer:
  headline: footer page
  help: Will only be shown in the footer navigation
  type: pages
  template: footer

Simple enough.

For the other three I want to allow and show anything except the template: footer type. I currently list every other template manually like so:

templates:
  - default
  - anotherTemplate
  - ohLookAtMeIAmATemplateYayVeryCool

as I couldn’t find a more elegant solution using queries by myself. So here’s my cry for human help:
Does anyone know a template: page.notTemplate("footer") that works?

Thanks in advance!

2

This is not possible yet.

There’s a feature request here that you might want to upvote:

However, if you define your section once in /site/blueprints/sections, you can then reuse it in all three instances and don’t have to retype everything.

An example of this can be seen in the Starterkit.

3

To come back to this topic:

How can I exclude pages or templates from a menu?

I tried this, the problem is that only the first template is excluded, not the following ones.

->notTemplate('pager-footer', 'pager-title-text-related', 'pager-title-text-image-listing')

4

Well I found thanks to the documentation:

->notTemplate(['one', 'two'])

->notTemplate(['pager-footer', 'pager-title-text-related', 'pager-title-text-image-listing', 'pager-title-text-image'])

5

Possible since Kirby 4.0 via templatesIgnore :+1: