Is there a way to get at the X most recent articles in the Liquid
templates? If so, what is the Liquid tag(s) I should be using? Also,
pagination - how do I get at them? I managed to figure it out for
seach.liquid by looking at the code for Mephisto (the 'search' method
in MephistoController) and using the 'next_page' and 'previous_page'
drops, but when I try to do the same for home.liquid and
section.liquid, it gives a URL which tries to contains the Pagination
object printed as a string (like '<Pagination:023AD...>'.

One last thing - is it possible to get at the next and previous article
relative to the current article (in single.liquid)?

I've been trying to figure these out by looking at the Mephisto wiki
and at the source to no avail. The Liquid template system is proving to
be pretty restrictive and somewhat unnecessary when we have eRb
templates the more I try to work with it :/

(I'm using the 0.6 release of Mephisto.)

I built a "recent stuff" doohickey for my sidebar, which shows the 10
most recent posts with the 5 most recent comments on each.  Here it is:

<dl>
{% for article in articles limit: 10 %}
  <dt>{{ article | link_to_article }}</dt>
  {% if article.comments_count > 0 %}
  {% for comment in article.comments limit: 5 %}
    <dd>{{ comment.body | truncatewords: 10 }}</dd>
  {% endfor %}
  {% else %}
    <dd>No comments</dd>
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</dl>

I'm a total liquid/mephisto newbie, so there might be a better way to do
that.  If someone knows one, I'd like to hear it!

One interesting side effect (that I like, actually) is that if you're
looking at a single article, it'll only show that article.  I presume
that if you're looking at search results, you'll only see those.  I like
that.

I don't know the answer to any of your other questions, sorry.

Ben

Ahh thanks for the reply Ben. I actually can get that working for the
home page, no problem, but if I'm understanding you correctly you also
only can get it working for the home page.

I guess I'm looking for something like a 'recent_articles' drop or
'all_articles | recent: 5' drop + filter.

Thanks anyway!

On 9/30/06, chuyeow <chuy...@gmail.com> wrote:

Filters:

http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/mephisto/trunk/app/filters/drop...

Mephisto doesn't do article paging except for in search results.
That's what the monthly archives are for.

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Rick Olson
http://weblog.techno-weenie.net
http://mephistoblog.com

Eek so those are new in trunk (I'm still using 0.6). Guess I should try
and get a trunk deploy going. Thanks.

Regarding paging, unless trunk has changed the way articles are
displayed, wouldn't that mean that if the 'article per page' is set to
say 10, and you browse a particular section's articles, you would be
limited to showing only the latest 10 since you can't page further?

Thanks for the reply!

On 9/30/06, chuyeow <chuy...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yup.  It's used for searching too.

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Rick Olson
http://weblog.techno-weenie.net
http://mephistoblog.com

If nothing else, it gets you going in the right direction.  I like the
way it works for my install... when people are looking at a single
article, they only see the stuff that's happening in that article.

That would be cool.  Plugin!

Ben

Wouldn't that be rather restrictive then? How am I going to show my
users articles from the, say, 'Mozilla' section past the first 10
articles? Pointing them to the monthly archives is one way but it's not
ideal. I'd suggest allowing pagination sometime in the future :)

And also, how do you display monthly archives since you mention it? Is
there a drop/filter that would allow me to loop through all the monthly
archives I have (skipping over those months for which there are no
entries)?

Thanks.

On 10/1/06, chuyeow <chuy...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't like paginated posts.  I especially hate doing google searches
on something for http://blog/foo/page/2, but finding out that was
cached 3 months ago and it's now on page 7.  However,
/foo/archives/2006/6 never changes.  If you really want pagination,
write a plugin.

http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/mephisto/trunk/themes/default/t...

Jamis has a better one that counts the articles in each month.  I
planned to yank that for Mephisto at some point.

--
Rick Olson
http://weblog.techno-weenie.net
http://mephistoblog.com