Composer description
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Ok, take this scenario:
I use composer to write a blog post, publish it, done and dusted. I then go to the blog index page and notice I have made an error with my description text, I go through to the blog entry page, but the description is not carried over onto the actual page, I then go back into composer to find that I cant get to the description there either.
It seems a bit odd to me that once the description/excerpt for a blog page is published it then is locked away in this kind of no mans land.
Am i missing something? is there a way of grabbing the description text from blog_index.php and displaying it as an editable area on the blog_entry.php page?
I use composer to write a blog post, publish it, done and dusted. I then go to the blog index page and notice I have made an error with my description text, I go through to the blog entry page, but the description is not carried over onto the actual page, I then go back into composer to find that I cant get to the description there either.
It seems a bit odd to me that once the description/excerpt for a blog page is published it then is locked away in this kind of no mans land.
Am i missing something? is there a way of grabbing the description text from blog_index.php and displaying it as an editable area on the blog_entry.php page?
The description, as when you add any page, can be edited through Page Properties and is actually not hidden away at all, except you can't edit it in composer.
Thank You.
With my recently acquired knowledge of how the 'Short Description' is used for,
this is all making much more sense.
It's not a user related field, as much as it is for search bots and results.
so, it's logical that it is not 'readily' editable.
because changing the field is also affecting how the page is indexed and found.
it's also used in the RSS feed as the description field. (That's probably good to know for any serious bloggers)
With my recently acquired knowledge of how the 'Short Description' is used for,
this is all making much more sense.
It's not a user related field, as much as it is for search bots and results.
so, it's logical that it is not 'readily' editable.
because changing the field is also affecting how the page is indexed and found.
it's also used in the RSS feed as the description field. (That's probably good to know for any serious bloggers)
It is confusing to have a 'unaccessable' field in composer.
frz provides a description here:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/what-is-th...
but for me, no description shows up when using a page list block. it's just a 'unused' field.
(It does show up in the meta=description of the html)
What's most annoying about it, is that it only shows up if you have a page type with the handle 'blog_entry'.
It doesn't matter if you have a template or not for that page type.
If you actually have a template for 'blog_entry', then you have no way to access or edit 'short description'.
If you include an area for 'Short Description' in your template, then you end up with two 'Short Description' fields in composer.
Does anyone know if the 'core' page types/fields listed anywhere?