Blog issue

Hi All
I’m a complete beginner to Modx and blogs. I’m following the Creating a Blog in MODx Revolution tutorial, but I cannot get it to work. Any assistance would be appreciated
1. I downloaded getResources,getPage, Quip tagLister ,Archivist.
2. Attached is an image of my resources structure.
3. I created a template called ’BlogPostTemplate’ and put the following content in:
[[$header]]
<div id="content" class="blog-post">
<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=``]]`]] |
<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=`2`]]</span>
`]]
<br class="clear" />
</div>
<hr />
<div class="post-comments" id="comments">[[!Quip?
&thread=`blog-post-[[*id]]`
&replyResourceId=`10`
&closeAfter=`30`
]]



[[!QuipReply?
&thread=`blog-post-[[*id]]`
&notifyEmails=`[email protected]`
&moderate=`1`
&moderatorGroup=`Moderators`
&closeAfter=`30`
]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
</div>
[[$footer]]
</div>
4. Created a TV called ‘tags’. It has access to the ’BlogPostTemplate’ Template.
5. I created my resource sections "Personal" ID 5 and "Technology" ID 6 and made them containers, with a base template. And put the following content in:
[[!getResourcesTag?
&element=`getResources`
&elementClass=`modSnippet`
&tpl=`blogPost`
&hideContainers=`1`
&pageVarKey=`page`
&parents=`[[*id]]`
&includeTVs=`2`
&includeContent=`1`
]]
[[!+page.nav:notempty=`
<div class="paging">
<ul class="pageList">
[[!+page.nav]]
</ul>
</div>
`]]
6. I made my blogPost Chunk, with the following code.
<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=`1`]]
</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>
7. I created my home page for the blog, which i’ve got in Resource ID 13 (called blog). I put the following code in the resource content:
[[!getResourcesTag?
&elementClass=`modSnippet`
&element=`getResources`
&tpl=`blogPost`
&parents=`5,6`
&limit=`5`
&includeContent=`1`
&includeTVs=`2`
&showHidden=`0`
&hideContainers=`1`
&cache=`0`
&pageVarKey=`page`
]]
[[!+page.nav:notempty=`
<div class="paging">
<ul class="pageList">
[[!+page.nav]]
</ul>
</div>
`]]
8. Inside my Personal container , I have created a new blog resource called ‘Events’ and set it’s Template to ’BlogPostTemplate’.
9. Lastly, I’ve specified the tag.

If I click on the events page I can preview my blog. But on my Blog page, icannot see any posts

Please can somebody help, ive redone this tutorial several times, and I’m not sure what’s wrong.

Many thanks
Rob

Rob - I’m just tidying up your post and putting all your code in ’code’ tags first, so that it’s easier to reply - in a minute. To format as code select your text and use the button with the hash/pound key on it.

Quote from: cfdm at Dec 17, 2010, 02:51 PM

Hi All
I’m a complete beginner to Modx and blogs. I’m following the Creating a Blog in MODx Revolution tutorial, but I cannot get it to work. Any assistance would be appreciated
1. I downloaded getResources,getPage, Quip tagLister ,Archivist.
2. Attached is an image of my resources structure.
3. I created a template called ’BlogPostTemplate’ and put the following content in:

[[$header]]
<div id="content" class="blog-post">
<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=``]]`]] | 
<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=`2`]]</span>
`]]
<br class="clear" />
</div>
<hr />
<div class="post-comments" id="comments">[[!Quip?
&thread=`blog-post-[[*id]]`
&replyResourceId=`10`
&closeAfter=`30`
]]
<br /><br />
[[!QuipReply?
&thread=`blog-post-[[*id]]`
&notifyEmails=`[email protected]`
&moderate=`1`
&moderatorGroup=`Moderators`
&closeAfter=`30`
]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
</div>
[[$footer]] 
</div>

4. Created a TV called ‘tags’. It has access to the ’BlogPostTemplate’ Template.
5. I created my resource sections "Personal" ID 5 and "Technology" ID 6 and made them containers, with a base template. And put the following content i

[[!getResourcesTag?
  &element=`getResources`
  &elementClass=`modSnippet`
  &tpl=`blogPost`
  &hideContainers=`1`
  &pageVarKey=`page`
  &parents=`[[*id]]`
  &includeTVs=`1`
  &includeContent=`1`
]]
[[!+page.nav:notempty=`
<div class="paging">  
<ul class="pageList">  
  [[!+page.nav]]  
</ul>  
</div>
`]]

6. I made my blogPost Chunk, with the following code.

<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=`1`]]
</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>

7. I created my home page for the blog, which i’ve got in Resource ID 13 (called blog). I put the following code in the resource content:

 [[!getResourcesTag?
  &elementClass=`modSnippet`
  &element=`getResources`
  &tpl=`blogPost`
  &parents=`5,6`
  &limit=`5`
  &includeContent=`1`
  &includeTVs=`1`
  &showHidden=`0`
  &hideContainers=`1`
  &cache=`0`
  &pageVarKey=`page`
]]
[[!+page.nav:notempty=`
<div class="paging">  
<ul class="pageList">  
  [[!+page.nav]]  
</ul>  
</div>
`]]

8. Inside my Personal container , I have created a new blog resource called ‘Events’ and set it’s Template to ’BlogPostTemplate’.
9. Lastly, I’ve specified the tag.

If I click on the events page I can preview my blog. But on my Blog page, icannot see any posts

Please can somebody help, ive redone this tutorial several times, and I’m not sure what’s wrong.

Many thanks
Rob

Thanks for tidying up my code - it was rather messy. I see the # now.

Ok - that didn’t help me much, but never mind.

In 3 you will need to change the quip email address, but that’s not an issue right now.

In 5 and 7 make sure you’ve set &includeTVs=`1` (not = 2 as you had it).

So, to summarise, you’re expecting resource id 13 (blog) to list id 12 (Events, under the container ’personal’ of id 5? Are both containers published? It looks like both 5 and 6 are unpublished. I’m pretty sure that getResources won’t list children of unpublished parents.

That’s correct.

i’ve set &includeTVs=`1`.

ID 13 (blog) is still not displaying any blogs, although i’ve published id 5 and id 6 (the containers).

Checking back to your screenshots, it’s outputting the ’music’ tag, so it must have found something - check that the tpl=`blogPost` that you have used in the getResources call on your blog home is the same name as the chunk you created earlier - as that’s the bit that’s not outputting.

You’ll also need to tidy where the tags link to (&target) - presumably id 13.

I’ve checked that the tpl=`blogPost` is correct. I’m really struggling here. I’ve updated some of the code below, i don’t know if it will be helpful.

Thanks once again for your help so far, much appreciated.

PAGES


Blog [13]
Template: BlogPostTemplate
TV: music


Personal [5] - container
Template: insidePage
No TV



Events [12]– blog article
Template: BlogPostTemplate
TV: apple
Parent Resource: personal (5)

General content

TEMPLATES

BlogPostTemplate



Tags (2)
Uses BlogPostTemplate

Chunks
blogPost

Try adding &tvPrefix=`` (unless all your TVs are prefixed by ’tv.’).

Thanks.

Ive added it to the blog[13] page. Is this correct?

That looks right. Clear the site cache and see if it helps.