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Blog List Partials

06/09/2023
A quick tutorial on how you can use partials in Stacks to make quick work of creating and editing sortable Blog Lists.

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00:07 hey everyone so this is a pretty neat
00:10 little video I mean it's nothing
00:12 mind-blowing but it's more of a um a way
00:17 for you to work smarter and not harder
00:19 so I yeah I don't know why I didn't
00:22 think of doing this before
00:25 um but here it is
00:28 um basically what I have is a blog list
00:32 with the blog list content here in a
00:37 partial
00:38 and let me show you what that actually
00:41 will get me okay
00:42 so if I preview this page
00:45 I have a blog list all right and so
00:49 right now I'm on date you know high to
00:53 low
00:54 uh and so if I do this one
00:57 I'm sorry this one's loaded high and
00:59 then this one's high to low this one's a
01:01 to z and this one's Z to A so this is a
01:05 pretty you know interesting simple way
01:10 to you know create blog lists with you
01:13 know some sort of dynamic sorting
01:16 um you know feature on a page and so you
01:20 know it's it's pretty neat right
01:22 but you know what what happens if you
01:25 needed to I don't know instead of having
01:27 the date
01:28 over here you wanted to date maybe
01:30 underneath the title well potentially
01:32 that would be one two three four times
01:34 that you would have to you know change
01:37 the layout of the blog list
01:39 but instead of doing that I have
01:42 my blog list set up where the only thing
01:46 I need to change would be something over
01:48 here like oldest First newest first
01:51 alphabetical so on and so forth
01:53 and then you know the same down here so
01:56 this one is set to oldest first this one
01:58 is set the newest first
02:00 this one is set to alphabetical ABC and
02:03 then this one is the reverse
02:05 and so
02:07 now if I wanted to you know I could just
02:10 take this date and put it underneath
02:14 that
02:16 go back and then there you go now
02:18 they're all the same they're all changed
02:21 so I can well you know it's it's to the
02:24 right here let me fix that real quick
02:27 just because it's going to drive me
02:28 blockers
02:30 while I'm demoing
02:32 all right
02:34 there so now the date is underneath the
02:37 title
02:38 on this one this one this one and this
02:41 one so yeah I think that's um a pretty
02:45 simple and effective solution and I hope
02:49 it helps you guys out maybe gives you
02:51 some ideas of other ways you can use
02:53 partials
02:55 um you know but oh let me show you one
02:56 thing though so we're used to you know
02:59 being able to while we're oops
03:02 while we're in here you know to being
03:05 able to add summary or title or whatever
03:08 Stacks right so you know just like a
03:10 partial you have to back out of it
03:13 um in order to see changes but if you
03:15 wanted to add something from the blog
03:16 list you're going to have to you know
03:18 first do the plus maybe you want you
03:20 know author
03:22 and then you're gonna have to cut that
03:24 going here and paste and then put that
03:28 wherever you want so maybe you wanted
03:29 that down here
03:31 so if I click on that
03:34 and now it's going to be you know
03:37 author is going to be to the right of
03:39 vacation dreams and the uh and the date
03:42 so anyway just a little little caveat
03:44 there so while you're working you got to
03:46 back out
03:48 you know get get the
03:50 the child stack that you want so I guess
03:53 my suggestion actually would be um
03:55 before you partialize something if
03:58 that's the word partialize
04:00 um my suggestion would be to go in here
04:04 and
04:07 you know build out your blog list the
04:10 way you want it so you can work a bit
04:12 more efficiently and then you know maybe
04:15 you can once you've gotten it you know
04:17 to where you want it
04:19 then you
04:21 take your uh your content here
04:23 go back into your partial if you haven't
04:25 if you've already created it paste it
04:29 and then
04:30 there you go
04:32 I don't have any media data so there you
04:35 go
04:36 um anyway I hope this helps
04:37 um I thought it was a a pretty simple
04:40 solution using partials right bye
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