Randomly select content
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I'm thinking of making the home page randomly select content from other pages.
Any thoughts on how to do this?
Any thoughts on how to do this?
You could achieve this by using the Jump Marks & Summary add-on:
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/blog-anchor/...
Place jump marks anywhere on your site where you want to point to from your home page and than add a summary build out of random jump marks on your home page.
The entries in the summary don't even have to be all random. If you want to make sure that a specific entry is always showing or the newest/oldest, you can select that as well.
Hope this helps...
Daniel
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/blog-anchor/...
Place jump marks anywhere on your site where you want to point to from your home page and than add a summary build out of random jump marks on your home page.
The entries in the summary don't even have to be all random. If you want to make sure that a specific entry is always showing or the newest/oldest, you can select that as well.
Hope this helps...
Daniel
What the heck is a jump mark?
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I want this to be totally automated. The editors add content to their sections. The system gathers the latest content and builds the frontpage. No manual setting or selection.
A jump mark marks a spot on your site where you can link to. Pretty much an anchor with more content information to it.
If you add the jump mark functionality to your content blocks, a summary block on your home page would always pull the newest, oldest or random entries which got saved along with your content blocks.
If you add the jump mark functionality to your content blocks, a summary block on your home page would always pull the newest, oldest or random entries which got saved along with your content blocks.
To randomly select blocks from a stack or page, see the core team's randomizer addon
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/randomizer/...
For random stacks, have a look at Stack Randomizer
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/stack-randomizer/...
For random content from any page, you could use a combination of my Universal Content Puller and Magic Data addons.
Setup Universal Content Puller to use Page Area by Magic Data as a content source. With Magic Data, make a list of pages, shuffle it, and pick the first (or the first N)
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/universal-content-pulle...
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/magic-data/...
You can then use any content block template, formigo containers or Magic Tipple to style and wrap the pulled content.
You could also create a custom page list view based on Page List Teasers, shuffling the list and picking the first before showing the first page's teaser.
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/randomizer/...
For random stacks, have a look at Stack Randomizer
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/stack-randomizer/...
For random content from any page, you could use a combination of my Universal Content Puller and Magic Data addons.
Setup Universal Content Puller to use Page Area by Magic Data as a content source. With Magic Data, make a list of pages, shuffle it, and pick the first (or the first N)
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/universal-content-pulle...
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/magic-data/...
You can then use any content block template, formigo containers or Magic Tipple to style and wrap the pulled content.
You could also create a custom page list view based on Page List Teasers, shuffling the list and picking the first before showing the first page's teaser.
Thanks for your feedback guys:)
Maybe this add-on will be helpful