News Module: MicroManagement Possible?

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Hi!

I am looking to see if anyone has done the following with News Module;

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{cms_module module="news" number="10" category='{title}'}

Goal: Having category specific news articles using the same template for multiple categories of news. Only way I could think to do this (I am NO programmer, I am a designer) is using the page title {title} which passes the variable(?) I need to accomplish this.

Problem: Can't seem to use {} inside {} (result {{}})

Has anyone approached this before?

Example URI: http://mm.drunkenlords.com/breaking_news/

The section that I would like to apply the example code in is the '{title} Archives' - The archives should be category specific on this page, however they are not, and all articles are displayed.

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I wouldn't use title as it may contain very long string. use page name instead like this

{cms_module module="news" number="10" category=$page_name}

ps. {get_template_vars} is a nice way to find out what variables you can use

hope this helps

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tsw: thank you very much for the super quick response - I'll let you know if I get it to worky!

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TSW: No such luck using $page_name. Thanks again for the support!

[tsw]

works here like a charm, are you sure you named your categories right. check the page variable content with get_template_vars or look at options tab when editing content. $page_name = alias

hope this helps

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I figured out the problem. The $page_name value was *NOT* the value I needed to use. It was $page_title. The reason I could not use $page_name was as follows;

$page_name = upcoming_events
$page_title = Upcoming Events

Needed title because I changed the title after I designed the page to remove the underscore (doesn't look good) and capitalize the text.

Thanks your support was the trick and enough time for me to understand.