How to post articles from other areas of the website?

I am going to run a sports website for a team. The news is in folders like, "Fire News" in which all news about the team goes into that folder. How do I on the front page of the website pull that news onto it?

I am very new and I have done my best to read everything I could, but as I said I am very new to this system and code.

Any and all help is beyond greatly appreciated....

Thanks to all that help...

You will want to have a look at Ditto, see the Ditto documentation @

http://ditto.modxcms.com/

ram,

Ok I have looked at it, but to be honest it is like I am trying to read a foreign language.

I think I just need some direction as to what might be going wrong. Let me try to get into more detail on what I have been doing:

Here is the code I used on the front page,

That in return gave me this on the front page:

From my understanding the startID is the folder or document that i want to show, well in my menu on the left hand side I have a Fire News container which holds all of my news articles that I will use for the site. The number I see next to it shows a 4, so I put or I thought from the stuff I have read that is the ID that I need to put in order to pull the news from that area.

The ;tpl=`news` I thought was the name of the template I was using? I am not sure what to name that part. So far I have three templates, Fire Homepage, Fire News Area and Fire News Articles.

So what am I missing here? Do I have to put a special code some where in order to pull those articles from that container?

Again any help is greatly appreciated, I am working on 3 days not being able to get this done and very frustraited in myself for not being able to get it working. I absolutely love this system, I just have to learn how to use it

It seems you are writing the ampersands in your Ditto call as HTML entities. Remove the amp; part from all of the parameters in the Ditto call.

The ;tpl=`news` I thought was the name of the template I was using? I am not sure what to name that part. So far I have three templates, Fire Homepage, Fire News Area and Fire News Articles.

No the template is a chunk containing the template for your news items.

You need to create a chunk called news with the HTML code and placeholders you want to be output.

for instance:

ram,

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this!

I must ask, did I miss that type of code somewhere in the tutorials around here? I am guessing I did because I have not seen anything explaining that I needed stuff like that.

Again I thank you and like I said I am sure I missed that somewhere...

That’s no problem at all–

When I first used Ditto I used the now deprecated documentation at:
http://modxcms.com/ditto_documentation.html

This gives a nice broad overview of how to use Ditto, but with Ditto 2 the docs have moved to:
http://ditto.modxcms.com/

The reference there is rather heavy-going but there are also some downloadable (HTML) docs found in the first post at:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,13533.0.html

In looking around (<5mins) I can’t seem to find a similar quick overview of using Ditto to that in the old deprecated docs. Suppose it’s something for the Wiki if no such docs are about.