Comic Adaption: Sidebar link to latest not on Frontpage

[Allstar]

'Extended properties for entries' plugin I am able to hide the comic entries from the frontpage but since I have hidden the comic category aswell there is no sign of them to the general public.

What I would like like to do is on the frontpage have only text entries and not the comic at the top or listed. The most recent comic can be seen from a sidebar link saying most recent/latest comic and that links to the most recent comic where the usual, first, previous. next, last links appear.

Reason being I want the first page to load as fast as possible and not constantly have a 640x640 picture at 200kb to load which also breaks the page layout.

How would this be done?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I sadly don't know that much of the comic plugin, so I try to use a more general approach. I hope it is not redundant.

I think the most flexible solution is this:

1. Create a "Custom Entryproperty" field that says "is_comic". For the comic entries, you set this variable to "1". We will need that for a Smarty checkup in the entries.tpl.

2. Edit your entries.tpl file. In the place where the foreach loop starts, you can add a smarty check:

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{if $startpage AND $entry.properties.ep_is_comic == 1}
.... ALL THE STUFF FOR PRINTING ENTRIES
{/if}

This would then hide comic entries from the startpage only if the "comic" flag is set...

Maybe this idea helps a bit, if not I'll try to look more into this at the end of the week.

Best regards,
Garvin

[judebert]

I haven't seen the comic plugin, either. If it uses its own class on the frontpage, you may be able to get rid of the images with just .thatclass img { display:none; } in your CSS.

If you give us a link to the page, we can check it out.