You may not be up to the task but I wrote a Directory and News extension which provides a management system like you described, tabular and paginated. I then incorporate the material into sites using the custom radius tags I wrote for the extension. Maybe Sean or someone else who runs a blog can describe how they maintain sanity as the number of posts grows.
-James On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've done a little bit with Radiant but I haven't done much digging > into the > more complex functionality. I'm a bit confused about something > though. > > Looking at things like the Blog demo, is the answer to really > create each post > as a child? Isn't this going to be unwieldy when a blog has say, > 3000 posts on > it? > > The site I'm working on (for my High School class) is going to have > a News area > with stories posted occasionally, in similar fashion to the blog > demo. I would > somewhat prefer a more simple method of adding the stories to a > table, but then > it seems I would lose the ability to iterate through them as > children and such. > > The same idea applies with the lists of people-- I don't think > having 500 child > pages, one for each person, is logical, but I'm missing the correct > way to do > this, I think. > > What I feel like I'm after is something that would let me iterate > through a > table (with a parameter attached to filter the options), and then > display each > item in a certain way, without creating a billion child pages. > > Any information would be appreciated, and I apologize if this is a > completely > stupid question. > > Thanks, > --Mike > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@lists.radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
