Displaying only certain aticles

[Mischa]

Lifetype is so nice.
Customizing it with the plugin Getcategory is very nice, too.

Fist question, for general understanding, about API, i guess:
- How are articles from categories with "don't show on first page" excluded from showing up on mainpage?
I don't see a mechanism for that in the main. or post.templates (like a switch, tag, or such, and no if-statements...)

Secondly, what I am trying to accomplish:
- One category, not show up in the panel list (which now displays all categories)
- That category, should get its own page/template, and on that static page, all the articles from that category gets posted, with dates, ability to comment and all.
(I have done this with Getcategory plugin, but no dates etc show up)

Info:
- Site: http://www.xn--skyddamiljn-0fb.nu/
- Static pages in question:

http://www.xn--skyddamiljn-0fb.nu/static/1/stymer (works but without dates, and its' category shows in panel)
http://www.xn--skyddamiljn-0fb.nu/static/1/stymer2 (does not work now)

Happy mid-summer to all! (Personally, I don't, but it is celebrated a lot in our Nordic countries...)

[raciloni]

Articles from categories with "don't show on first page" are not excluded in templates but in lifetype core when it gets the articles from the databsae.

To display date and add the ability to comment articles, replace :

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{if $getcategory}
  {assign var="pressarticles"
          value=$getcategory->getArticles("stymer", 0)}
  {foreach from=$pressarticles item=pa}
    {assign var="postTitle" value=$pa->getTopic()}
    {assign var="permLink" value=$url->postPermalink($pa)}
      <h3 class="storytitle">{$pa->getTopic()}</h3>
       {$pa->getText()}
  {/foreach}
{/if}


with

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{if $getcategory}
  {assign var="pressarticles"
          value=$getcategory->getArticles("stymer", 0)}
  {foreach from=$pressarticles item=pa}
    {assign var="postTitle" value=$pa->getTopic()}
    {assign var="permLink" value=$url->postPermalink($pa)}
   {assign var="postDate" value=$pa->getDateObject()}

      <h3 class="storytitle"><a href="{$url->postPermalink($pa)}" rel="bookmark">{$pa->getTopic()}</a></h3>
      <h4>{$locale->formatDate($postDate,"%d %B  %Y")}</h4>
      
       {$pa->getText()|strip_tags|truncate:1400:"...":false}

<a href="{$url->postPermalink($pa)}" rel="bookmark">[more]</a>
  {/foreach}
{/if}



To display all categories except one category

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   {foreach from=$articlecategories item=articleCategory}
      {if  $articleCategory->getId() != 28}
       <li><a title="{$articleCategory->getName()}" href="{$url->categoryLink($articleCategory)}">{$articleCategory->getName()}</a></li>
      {/if}
         {/foreach}


[Mischa]

Thank you very much, raciloni!
Worked very well!

I excluded more categories from my panel with this:

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{if $articleCategory->getId() !=28 && $articleCategory->getId() !=12 && $articleCategory->getId() !=8 && $articleCategory->getId() !=11 && $articleCategory->getId() !=17}


Is that the correct way, or is there a shorter method?
(Like "if article category is not 28 OR not 12"?)