Limit Blog-Content-Loop? + Help!

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@ezchile

Hi. I’m just starting out with Pulse (5.2.2), and am struggling with a few things on the first site I’m using Pulse to power. I’ve been asked for a block that basically shows the title, image and part before the ‘Read more’ of the last 3 blog posts, on the homepage of the site, where the full blog layout would be available on a differnt page. (So basically a group of three blog teasers on a different page than the blog would live)

I’ve seen this:

{{blog:"":[[featured-image]] [[blog-content-loop(<<blog-item-author>> <<blog-item-date>> <<blog-item-featured-image>> <<blog-item-content>>)]]}}

But is it possible to pull just a limited number of these, which would be different to the usual blog page and pagination options, and can the section before the ‘Read more’ be accessed here too?

I wouldn’t have thought it was too strange a request, or too outlandish… So, how would one go about that? Is it even possible in Pulse?

This sounds similar to a discussion here:

A new type of visual "recent post" tag

At present we can insert {{recentposts}} and it will put a list of posts up, and we can adjust the number of posts but that about it. Its just a hyperlinked list and not very visual It would be very useful if it was possible to be able to insert the actual latest post along with its associated image into a page section. Clients and visitors love to see the front page of their site looking current and I think this would be a great and possibly simple addition. Not simple enough that I can code …

So to limit your front page to 3 Recent Blog Posts, use the "Recent Blog Posts" tag as detailed here from the manual around page 28:

Recent Posts Tag

{{recentposts}}

Add it to any block, blog or page to see your recent blog posts. The tag takes two parameters (both optional). The first is the number of posts to show and the second is the blog to use. eg {{recentposts:"10":"blog/another"}} for a sub blog.

That said, it won't show the image as yet, but we are looking to add that in an update (as mentioned in the link above).