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How to Blog with Ditto and Jot?

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    gcruz Reply #1, 19 years, 8 months ago
    I’ve installed the latest release of Modx 9.5; however, the sample data still uses Newslisting instead of ditto. I was going to use this as a base to reverse engineer it.

    I’ve searched all over for a Tutorial on how to use Ditto as a blog with no success. The current tutorial on the main site show how to do it with Newslisting.

    Are there any step by step tutorials with screenshots on how to do the following:

    1. Add entry / show entries
    2. Example Chunks
    3. Example CSS
    4. Example TVs
    5. Example Jot

    An tie it all together to make a blog? Please help.

    Lost and confused,

    Gary
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      sottwell Reply #2, 19 years, 8 months ago
      The principles are the same, just check the ditto documentation to see what’s different in the options and the placeholders available.

      http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Ditto
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        Ryan Thrash Reply #3, 19 years, 8 months ago
        Gary, the samples in 0.9.5 use Ditto.
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          gcruz Reply #4, 19 years, 8 months ago
          I saw that in My MODx Site demo site:
          Blog (2)
          [[Ditto? &startID=`2` &summarize=`2` &total=`20` &commentschunk=`Comments` &tpl=`nl_blog` &paginate=`1` &alwaysshow=`1`]]

<p>Showing <strong>[+start+]</strong> - <strong>[+stop+]</strong> of <strong>[+total+]</strong> Articles</p>

<div id="nl_pages"> [+previous+] [+pages+] [+next+] </div>


          Add a Blog Entry (3)
          [!NewsPublisher? &folder=`2` &canpost=`Site Admins` &formtpl=`FormBlog` &footertpl=`Comments` &makefolder=`1` &rtcontent=`tvblogContent`!]


          So NewsPublisher is not depreciated. NewsListing is right?
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            Ryan Thrash Reply #5, 19 years, 8 months ago
            Correct. Publisher creates. Listing = Ditto.
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