[SOLVED] Making blueprint's content available on other pages?

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1

I created a site that has a News section. I created news-item subpages that act as the singular news articles (think: blog/blog-entry). Those news-items are all rendered into the News template.

The current structure looks like this:

content
—3-news
——this-is-a-news-item
——another-headline-news
——hello-world-news

site
—templates
——news
——news-item

I would also like to render those news-item[s] out on the homepage as well. Is there a way to specifically query for those subpages and show them outside of their normal parent template?

Here’s how I’m currently rendering each news-item out onto the News page:

<?php foreach($page->children()->sortBy('date','desc') as $news): ?>
    <div>
        <div class="news-item">
            <?php if (!empty($news->file())) { ?>
                <img src="<?php echo $news->file()->url() ?>" />
            <?php } ?>
            <em><?php echo $news->date('F d, Y') ?></em>
            <h3><?php echo $news->title()->html() ?></h3>
            <p><?php echo $news->text() ?></p>
        </div>
    </div>
<?php endforeach ?>
2

Yes, of course:

$articles = page('blog')->children()->sortBy('date', 'desc');

Then you just iterate through the collection as above.

3

Hi Texnixe, forgive me, I’m obviously a total noob with this…

The main section is called “news”. Are you suggesting I replace the foreach with some of what you outlined?
`<?php foreach($page('news')->children()->sortBy('date', 'desc'): ?>
…

<?php endforeach ?>`

Doing so results in an error:
‘Fatal error: Function name must be a string in /Users/username/-/kirby-project/kirby/site/templates/home.php on line 43’

----------------UPDATE------------------
I have it working, although not certain if this is the cleanest way to do it?

<?php foreach((page('news')->children()->sortBy('date', 'desc')) as $news): ?>
    <div><div class="news-item">
        <?php if (!empty($news->file())) { ?>
            <img src="<?php echo $news->file()->url() ?>" />
        <?php } ?>
        <em><?php echo $news->date('F d, Y') ?></em>
        <h3><?php echo $news->title()->html() ?></h3>
        <p><?php echo $news->text() ?></p>
    </div></div>
<?php endforeach ?>
4

It’s not $page('news') but page('news') without the $ sign. You can also save it into a variable first like I did above and then use the variable in your foreach loop:

<?php 
$news = page('news')->children()->sortBy('date', 'desc');
foreach($news as $newsItem): ?>
//do stuff
<?php endforeach ?>

Pls note that I changed the variable to newsItem so you have to adapt your code above to reflect this.

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5

Excellent. Understood. Thanks very much!