Hi there,
for some time I started working with Movable Type. I know cms systems for webapplication but no blogging applications. I had a look at wordpress, but I'm a perl developer and so I wnat to use a perl application. I saw that in wordpress I can switch the template for a static page by selecting a template in a selectbox. In movable type I don't find a possibility like this. What is the general way for doing this? Should I build some templates and create a if/else condition in the page template. I think that's a odd way.
Thank you fpr your help.
Elwood
Reported on Movable Type 5
Hi Elwood,
It is wise to not create multiple templates for the same page type (i.e. pages in your situation) on movable type, because in case you create multiple ones a page would be created for page based on each template.
Instead, you could use sticky tags for differentiating the coding under a page archive template.
A sticky tag is a tag like this:
@leftcolumn
Let me give you a sample.
I would assume that you want to have two variations for the page template. One should contain a left sidebar column, and the other one shouldn't have the footer.
You would use the following logic:
<mt:PageIfTagged tag="@leftcolumn">put here the left column coding or include</mt:PageIfTagged>
<mt:PageIfTagged tag="@nofooter">
<mt:Ignore>
This is for those pages were you don't want the footer to be displayed
</mt:Ignore>
<mt:Else>
but put here the footer coding for all the other pages...
</mt:PageIfTagged>
Of course, in order for the above to work, you have to tag one or more pages with "@leftcolumn", and one or more pages with "@nofooter" (without the quotes).
The difference in between a real tag and a sticky tag, is that the sticky tag has the "@" symbol in front of it and is not displayed as a tag associated to the entry inside published pages or tag clouds. It is used only for filtering inside template, as a sort of trick.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
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Great, thank you for your explanation. I will try this.
Best regards
Elwood
You're welcome Elwood!