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Hi Gail,

You would have to tell me a little bit more about your project.

What is "News"?

Is it a folder, or a category?

If it is a folder, how many pages are added to it?

If it is a category, how many entries are assigned to it?

Last, but not least, what is the link you are talking about that you are saying it goes to your news page, but not on its sidebar?

To give you a tip, you could assign the tag "@sidebar" to an item that you want to push to the sidebar (entry or page) and then on the content area where you don't want that item to appear you would pass to mt:Entries or mt:Pages the parameter:
tag="NOT @sidebar"

While on a sidebar widget you would pass the parameter:
tag="@sidebar"

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

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Hi Mihai,

"News" is a category with 8 entries - on the website "news" is listed under "About" Page - and my goal is to be able to click on "About" on the homepage - then click on "Recent News" sidebar and I don't know if I need to change something in the entry listing under archive templates?
"Recent News" has my most recent entry published. Works fine, but my goal is to create entries/archives on the "Recent News" page/side bar: Check this page out: http://www.longworth.com/news/

All the best,

Gail

Hi Gail,

Why don't you use under your "About" page sidebar the following:

<mt:Entries category="News">
...
</mt:Entries>

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

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I only want it on the "Recent News" page not all all - should I make my edits under Design / Templates or Widgets?

Thank you,

Gail

If you want it only on that page, which is a category page, you would first declare the category context using this logic:

<mt:if name="category_archive">

Then, you would compare the current category with the category where you want to display this widget:

<mt:if tag="CategoryLabel" eq="News">

And after that you would put the mt:Entries loop.

After that you would close the two if loops mentioned above.

This could be created either as a template module or a widget. Maybe easier as a module, as that could be seen right from the templates panel.