Posts

Introduction

Posts are Tailor Blueprint entries designed to show blog posts based on the entry's settings. Post entry content is determined by the post.yaml file.

The idea behind the posts is that anyone can create anything based anything. There are two types of posts defined in the post.yaml blueprint, listed below:

Simple Posts

Simple posts are just that. They support the following content:

• An adaptive content field

• An Image field used to display behind the title

• An option to display an Author

• Blog Categories

• A Blog Excerpt (Short Description)

• SEO & OG Tag information provided by the seo_fields.yaml file

• Header, Body, and Footer code areas provided by the code_fields.yaml file

These posts are designed to dump data quickly, such as content that doesn't need much formatting.

Dynamic (Builder) Posts

These posts are more powerful. You can build posts exactly how you want. They support a lot of features but most of them are covered in the Block Types area of the documentation. To summarize, These posts have the following content and abilities:

• A "builder block" style area supported by October CMS's repeater field widget with the following blocks:

  • Section Block With configurable columns matching the top level of selectable blocks

  • Posts which are filterable

  • Events which are filterable

  • Products which are filterable

  • Forms which displays a chosen form

• Blog Categories

• An option to display an Author

• An Image field used to display behind the title

• SEO & OG Tag information provided by the seo_fields.yaml file

• Header, Body, and Footer code areas provided by the code_fields.yaml file.

Template Files

The files below are used to display content throughout the site. Below is an explanation of what each file does and how things are rendered.

Pages

post.htm

This file is used to display page content form the posts entry blueprint. It includes sections for the Simple and Dynamic Posts.

it uses the builder/items.htm partial for rendering the Section Blocks builder content.

Partials

builder/items.htm

This file renders the top level Section blocks in the Dynamic Page builder. It contains partial links to the following blocks:

• Hero Section

• Section

• Posts Section

• Events Section

• Form Section

Blueprints

builder/sections/*

These files are used to render the top level Section blocks in the Dynamic Page Builder

builder/columns/*

These files are used in the Section Block to render partial content. They are very similar to the Section blocks but include a few more partials to render column block content:

• Buttons Column

• Content Column

• Images Column

builder/globals/*

These files are used throughout the Section and Column blocks to render the following content:

• Buttons

  • Used in Buttons Column Block

  • Used in Hero Section Block

• Shop Alerts

  • Used in all Products Blocks (Section and Column). Used to display Shop alert content when the shop content isn't set.