Limiting News Items

[BlueLaw]

Hi, I'm sure this has been covered but I don't seem to be able to find out where...

I have 2 news blocks, one on the HOME PAGE and one on a NEWS PAGE.

I want the one on my home page to be limited to 3 news items,

and I want the one on my news page to list ALL of my news items.

If I use the parameter number="3" then you get the awkward arrows, like this: "Page 1 of 2  > >>"

- Which I really don't want, instead I just want 3 items, and that's it.

Let me know if you've got the code, I've been working on this for too long now, many thanks in advance.

[Zoorlat]

Pagination is set in the summary template. Just edit your summary template if you want to change it. On the top of the sample (default) template you'll see something like:

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{if $pagecount > 1}
  <p>
{if $pagenumber > 1}
{$firstpage} {$prevpage} 
{/if}
{$pagetext} {$pagenumber} {$oftext} {$pagecount}
{if $pagenumber < $pagecount}
 {$nextpage} {$lastpage}
{/if}
</p>
{/if}

Simply create a new template without that stuff if you do not want the pagination. Remember to use summarytemplate="nameofyourtemplate" in the {news}-tag if you want to use your custom no-pagination-template.

For more, see this thread: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php?topic=16684.msg82513

[gemini]

And about those news.. almost the same problem here. I want to show only one news article on homepage and detailed straight away. When you add {news...} first you see summary, then you have to click on more, to see detailed view. I want that detailed view straight away.

[Zoorlat]

@gemini Also this you can do by modifying the summary template. Simply change the default template (or create a new one) and use {eval var=$entry->content} where you want to insert the content of a news item.

If you look closer at the default template, you'll see how it works and what other tags you can use (for summary, extra, date, category, etc).

Good luck!

[gemini]

This one solved i think ;]