[SOLVED] Blog posts not showing up in main blog page (first time blog set up)

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patcharan Reply #1, 15 years, 9 months ago

Hi. I am a front-end person and I have been trying so hard to set up modx. I tried to follow the steps to set up a blog using this tutorial http://rtfm.modx.com//display/revolution20/Creating+a+Blog+in+MODx+Revolution
(I haven’t styled everything nor made the menu on the site yet; I want to see how the blog plays out first).
I seem to have a blog running here: http://fruitflylife.com/index.php?id=4
And I seem to have a post here: http://fruitflylife.com/index.php?id=8
But the post doesn’t show up in the main blog page.
I think I redirected the tagLister and toLinks to ID 4 instead of ID 1 in the chunk and and the template, but I have a feeling I may have missed something having to do with that.
This is the blog stuff that I have in my template:

 <h2 class="title"><a href="[[~[[*id]]]]">[[*pagetitle]]</a></h2>  
     
   <p class="post-info">  
   Posted on [[*publishedon:strtotime:date=`%b %d, %Y`]] |   
   Tags: [[*tags:notempty=`[[!tolinks? &items=`[[*tags]]` &key=`tag` &target=`4`]]`]] |   
   <a href="[[~[[*id]]]]#comments" class="comments">  
    Comments ([[!QuipCount? &thread=`blog-post-[[*id]]`]])  
   </a>  
   </p>  
   
   <div class="entry">  
     <p>[[*introtext]]</p>  
     <hr />  
     [[*content]]  
    </div>  
   
   <div class="postmeta">  
     [[*tags:notempty=`  
 <span class="tags">Tags: [[!tolinks? &items=`[[*tags]]` &key=`tag` &target=`4`]]</span>  
     `]]  
     <br class="clear" />  
   </div>  
   <hr />  
   <div class="post-comments" id="comments">[[!Quip?  
       &thread=`blog-post-[[*id]]`  
       &replyResourceId=`123`  
       &closeAfter=`30`  
     ]]  
     <br /><br />  
     [[!QuipReply?  
        &thread=`blog-post-[[*id]]`  
        &notifyEmails=`[email protected]`  
        &moderate=`1`  
        &moderatorGroup=`Moderators`  
        &closeAfter=`30`  
     ]]

And this is what I have in my blogPost chunk:

<div class="post">
    <h2 class="title"><a href="[[~[[+id]]]]">[[+pagetitle]]</a></h2>
    <p class="post-info">Posted by [[+createdby:userinfo=`fullname`]]
 [[+tv.tags:notempty=` | <span class="tags">Tags: 
[[!tolinks? &items=`[[+tv.tags]]` &key=`tag` &target=`4`]]
</span>`]]</p>
    <div class="entry">
	<p>[[+introtext]]</p>
    </div>
    <p class="postmeta">
      <span class="links">
<a href="[[~[[+id]]]]" class="readmore">Read more</a>
| <a href="[[~[[+id]]]]#comments" class="comments">
    Comments ([[!QuipCount? &thread=`blog-post-[[+id]]`]])
  </a>
| <span class="date">[[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%b %d, %Y`]]</span>
      </span>
    </p>
</div>

MODx Revolution 2.0.6-pl2 (traditional)

PHP Version 5.2.13
CGI/FastCGI
MySQL version 5.0 (I’m not not using localhost)
Linux vux29 2.6.33.2-NETSOL

Mac 10.4.11
Firefox 3.0.19

Thank you so much in advance for any help on this!

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patcharan Reply #2, 15 years, 9 months ago

Sorry, here’s my info, as far as I can find out so far (It’s a wonder I know any of this):

PHP Version 5.2.13
CGI/FastCGI

MySQL version 5.0 (I’m not not using localhost)

Is this the server OS?: Linux vux29 2.6.33.2-NETSOL

MODx Revolution 2.0.6-pl2 (traditional)

My laptop:
Mac 10.4.11
Firefox 3.0.19

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patcharan Reply #3, 15 years, 9 months ago

Ok I’ve been really trying to make this work, I’ve been at it all day. I don’t think it’s a bug, I think I’m just doing something slightly wrong.
I realized I didn’t understand the blog posts are supposed to be just the post formatting without the overall site template, so I changed that -- It’s just like the blog post template in the tutorial. It works... http://fruitflylife.com/index.php?id=8
But the problem is getting the post into the main blog page: http://fruitflylife.com/index.php?id=4
I’ve tired both `1` and `4` for &includeContent=`` and &includeTVs=`` -- but I don’t understand if those numbers are for the pageIDs or not (I DO understand that I have to change the targets to `4` in the tolinks snippet).

[[!getResourcesTag?
  &elementClass=`modSnippet`
  &element=`getResources`
  &tpl=`blogPost`
  &parents=`5,6,7`
  &limit=`5`
  &includeContent=`4`
  &includeTVs=`4`
  &showHidden=`0`
  &hideContainers=`4`
  &cache=`0`
  &pageVarKey=`page`
]]
[[!+page.nav:notempty=`
<div class="paging">  
<ul class="pageList">  
  [[!+page.nav]]  
</ul>  
</div>
`]]

I had to change my parents IDs from what the tutorial had as well.
I feel like it’s one little thing I don’t understand.
I’m going to donate to modx as soon as this works!

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patcharan Reply #4, 15 years, 9 months ago

Figured it out! Totally duh... just had to select a parent / category for the blog post. For some reason I thought the tags did that.