Adding sidebar "Latest Posts" & "Latest Comments" to non blog pages?

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Photowebmax Reply #1, 14 years, 8 months ago

I am messing around with Articles...

I currently have it working with custom templates, CSS, and active comments etc.

In my template I have the following in the sidebar:

<div class="sidemenuBlog">
  <h4>Latest Posts</h4>
  <ul>
  [[+latest_posts]]
  </ul>
</div>


<div class="sidemenuBlog">
[[+comments_enabled:is=`1`:then=`
  <h4>Latest Comments</h4>
  <ul>
  [[+latest_comments]]
  </ul>
`]]
</div>

This works great with the Articles blog container page and the individual post pages themselves. I have other regular pages outside of the Articles system. I would like the "Latest Posts" & "Latest Comments" to appear in the sidebar on these pages as well? I tried adding the above code to my regular page template but nothing shows?

Any tips here?

Thanks!

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splittingred Reply #2, 14 years, 8 months ago

Use the packaged Articles snippet:

[[!Articles? &container=`ID OF CONTAINER`]]
[[+latest_comments]]

etc.

shaun mccormick | bigcommerce mgr of software engineering, former modx co-architect | github | splittingred.com

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shick11sp Reply #3, 14 years, 8 months ago

check here https://forums.modx.com/thread/72552/use-of-articles-placeholders#dis-post-407466

just add

[[Articles? &container=`id of blog container`]]

to the template you are trying to use the blog sidebar on

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Photowebmax Reply #4, 14 years, 8 months ago

Perfect...

Thanks!