Is there a Recent Blog Posts page like there is for forums? If so, where. If not, how to create one?

Hi Inactive User,

From what I can tell, the way to get to that BlogArchivesPage is from the Blog Archives component. That component isn't certified for Responsive, so you can expect styling to be off and your mileage may vary, but you can still use that component to test out the BlogArchivesPage to see if it meets your needs. (I don't think it does.)

The Blog Archives Page shows a set of links to blog articles for the blog in context by time range. (The time range is configurable in Admin.) Clicking on a grouped set of blogs, like "December 2016" takes you back to the Blog Page, filtered to that date range. 

That's about as far as I can take you at the moment. I believe we have some rock stars on the Community who have built out custom message lists who can help you build the page you need.

One last thing. You mentioned using LIMIT. Are you also using OFFSET for pagination? (Scroll up a bit in that link to see the start of the section. The heading is buried under the fixed header.)

Thanks SuzieH,

I will be using OFFSET, thanks. Is there a way to use Lithium's nice pagination indicators or will I have to whip up something that does the same function with the same structure?

Thanks, SuzieH

SuzieHCan you provide any information / guidance for the common.widget.pager component?

Also, the webuisupport methods are intriguing but I'd love an example of how to apply it -- confusing out of context. 

I'm trying to get it to work for a custom page with custom url properties to pull blog posts for a particular author. So I create a url to give me that, for example, t5/custom/page/page-id/BlogArticlesByAuthor/author-id/50

In which case, I'm trying to pull author-id, which is not a ootb Lithium value (as far as I know), so it's throwing a Freemarker error. 

<#assign author_id = webuisupport.path.parameters.name.get("author-id") />

It seems that's because it doesn't exist on the path object, rather than just pulling it from the URL. So ... how do I get that to work? Do I build a url with a parameter as shown on the webuisupport object? The documentation is unclear.

urls.fullyQualifiedPage
.name.page_name
.path("path_param_1_name","path_param_1_value")
.query("query_param_1_name", "query_param_1_value")
.build()

// returns a fully qualified url to a page

What does "fully qualified url" mean, and how do I create it? Etc.

I can't make heads or tails of how to use webuisupport, at least in the context of a custom page or building a fullyQualifiedUrl. 

Thanks!

Hi Inactive User

The common.widget.pager isn't something that can be used in a customized way. It expects certain parameters from the underlying Java code. Exposing it in a way that would make it useful to customers would require core changes. I'm working on getting you more help with webuisupport. I'm hoping that PaoloT, ChiaraS, DougS, or AdamA might be able to help with examples.

Inactive User there's an example here that may be useful for common.widget.pager: /t5/Developers-Discussion/Implement-custom-pagination/m-p/107129/highlight/true#M3945