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What's the best way to set up a content-manageable 404 page?
I would create a Single with the URI set to "404", and also set its Template to "404". That entry will automatically get loaded if you go to http://example.com/404, and load your 404.html template, so ...
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How to write a simple navigation?
My solution is to setup a dedicated "Menu" section and use an entries field type for the links. This allows you to pull together entries from multiple sections into a single menu.
My normal setup is ...
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How to write a simple navigation?
I pulled together this brain-dump of 8 different ways of doing navigation. There's probably more. With any method make sure you keep a close eye on the query count and load speed, as some of these ...
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Password protect a single page
Yes. Use the RequireLogin tag at the top of a page:
{% requireLogin %}
This tag will ensure that the user is logged in. If they aren’t, they will be redirected to the Login page, and returned to ...
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How do I return ALL entries that are singles
There's no such method available for craft.entries, at least it's not documented. But you can use craft.sections to get an array of section models and filter them with a conditional within a loop:
{# ...
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Route breaks Single Entry
Craft automatically includes the entry variable if the slug matches the url:
If the URI matches an entry’s or category’s URI, the
section’s/category group’s template will get loaded, and the ...
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How do I get the url of single pages?
Craft creates an EntryModel for each Single Section, that allows you to access the URL property you are after. You can get the (one) EntryModel using the Section's ID and the first() method:
{% set ...
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How to write a simple navigation?
In some cases I use a pre-defined (very simple) nav that I don't need to be driven from the CMS yet I want to share it between the header / footer. In these cases I'll set an array in my base layout ...
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Globals versus Singles
The performance aspect is difficult to answer. On every pageload, Craft pulls all your global sets, which can be a performance hit, especially if you have many huge, complex global sets with a lot of ...
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How to write a simple navigation?
If you have more complex menus in the future, you should take a look at the Nav-Tag.
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Getting singles:
There isn't an easy way to get singles (yet). But you can use the same method which is used ...
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How to use a Structure including a homepage
You can place your homepage entry in a Structure by setting its slug to __home__.
Doing so causes the entry to answer for the / (empty) URI, and it even places the little "home" icon in place of the ...
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How to properly setup single page templates
If I've deciphered what you're asking correctly, I think the solution you need is to set the single to use your about/index template, not the about/_layout-about template.
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How to write a simple navigation?
Another easy way to handle a dynamic menu in Craft is to add a Matrix field to a Global.
For example, I have a Global called "Main Menu". That Global has a Matrix field called "Menu Item". I then ...
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How to write a simple navigation?
1) This is not so simple of an answer. Craft itself uses JS to handle the content of indexes, so I'm not sure how they're doing this. Using what's available you would need to build a list of Single ...
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How flexible is tying content to a structure?
Structures simply add an extra bit of sorting and querying. You can look for entries in a structure the same way you look for entries in a channel. The difference is that you can also have parents and ...
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Simple navigation with active class?
If you just want to set the active class on static nav then you can just create a conditional using any defining attribute (i.e. title, slug, id, uri-segment, etc). Here is an example using the uri-...
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How to use a Structure including a homepage
Updated answer to reflect your added uri requirements.
Given your desired uri patterns, I would recommend moving 'subpage-1', 'subpage-2', and 'subpage-3' to the root of your structure which will ...
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Parent/child Single sections
Ignoring the obvious "use a Structure" answer, I suppose you could fake a "hierarchy" by placing a child and parent entry field on each of your Single sections and manually assigning entries as ...
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Parent/child Single sections
Take a look into Entry Types, I'm pretty sure that's a much better way to handle what you're trying to achieve:
https://craftcms.com/features/entry-types
So you'd have a Structure section (let's ...
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How to use a Structure including a homepage
You don't have to use an extra single section for the homepage, see here: "Add home page to a structure?"
Edit: As this question is slightly different to the one I linked to, I will add some more ...
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content and fields won't show up on new single
I fixed it... I hadn't assigned a field to the section.
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Loop through fields from 'single'
I think there's a few ways you can do this with twig.
You should be able to check whether the category slug exists as an attribute on the entry object:
{% for category in craft.categories.group('...
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Single entry with 450 Matrix blocks throwing error on save
Most likely you're bumping into php.ini limitations. I'd bump the values of memory_limit, post_max_size and max_input_vars and see if that helps.
They are common culprits when POSTing large amounts ...
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Change name of Singles
Add a /translations/ folder to your project root and within that folder a /fill-in-locale-here/ folder. Add a file "app.php" to that /translations/fill-in-locale-here/ folder which returns an array of ...
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Where does Craft store HTML Templates?
It sounds like you have access to the CP, but not the server.
In order to modify the template files (usually stored in the templates directory, next to the public web folder), you'll need SSH or FTP ...
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What's the best way to set up a content-manageable 404 page?
404 redirect:
You could set up your single to use 404-not-found (example) as a uri, and add a redirect:
{% redirect '/404-not-found' %}
to the /404.html file. That way every 404-page gets ...
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How to write a simple navigation?
This doesn't work for every project, but for brochure style sites I like having all the client-arrangeable pages in one Structure, with toggles on each entry to optionally show in primary or secondary ...
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Get content of single by slug
Singles have no need for slugs, which is why we don't expose them in the CP UI for a single.
They only have one in the database because they're technically entries, and entries need slugs. But it's ...
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Get content of single by slug
I don't think that either the single's uri or the handle is technically considered a slug per se, although in the case of singles craft likely interprets the handle as such. A more appropriate way to ...
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How do I get the url of single pages?
To get an URL to a specific CraftCMS single entry.
Look up for the entry unique id in admin panel and then apply in Twig template:
Example below:
{% set page_cookies_policy = craft.entries.id(10)....
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