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Purpose
The Listing Page allows you to create dynamic pages showcasing various content types in a list format. It simplifies the management and presentation of large amounts of similar content.
When to Use
This is ideal for situations where you need to display collections of content:
- News & Events: Create a "Newsroom" page listing all your news articles.
- Team Bios: Build a "People" page showcasing team member profiles.
- Training Materials: List all training materials or resources.
- Location Listings: Display a directory of your business locations.
- Custom Content Types: Utilize Listing Pages for any content type that benefits from a list format.
Elements of Listing Pages
The Listing Page allows editors to collect "buckets" of content together into one long list. These might be used, for example, for a "News Feed" or "Newsroom" page of all past news items, or a long list of all Basic Pages assigned to a specific Topic.
For example, the Training Playlist is a "listing page" of all basic pages, with the topic of "Training."
- Type of Content: such as How Do I, News, Basic Pages, Locations, Contacts, Documents, etc
- Display as: such as a Teaser or set of Linked Titles
- Items per page: How many items do you want to display on the listing page
- Include filters: Filters appear at the top of the list and allow for additional filtering of content produced in the listing page
- Sorting: Select the check box for an alphabetized list. Deselect the check box if you want the sorting to be based on the date from newest to oldest.
- Show only Topic: Constrain results to one "Topic" pulled from your "Topics" taxonomy list
Here are some variations:
Listing Page of Linked Titles, showing only one topic:
Listing Page of Linked Teasers, showing only one topic:
Listing Page of Teasers filtered by Title:
Listing Page of Teasers filtered by Title and Topic:
We recommend you build a Listing Page of all Basic Pages, and use that as a base to test options.
Log in to your site
Everyone who writes things on this website has a special title. These titles give them certain abilities, like who can edit, review and publish what. You can ask for a different title or take one away from someone using the user manager.
Navigate to the Content tab
You can add pages to your website by navigating to the content button but make sure you are logged in so that you can have access to that tab.
You can sort the pages that you've created using the filter button as well as edit the pages you've created for your website by selecting the edit button within the content list page:
(Example of Content list page)
Create a Listing Page
Create a new Listing Page by navigating to Content within the navigation bar, from their select add content, then lastly select listing page:
Options for creating a listing page include:
- Listing page of "Basic Pages" to collect and display basic pages.
- Listing page of "How Do I" to collect and display how do I content.
- Listing page of "Events" to collect and display events.
- Listing page of "News" to collect and display events.
- Listing page of "Locations" to collect and display locations.
- Listing page of "Contacts" to collect and display contacts.
If you want to be more specific you can choose to only show certain types of things within your chosen category such as Topics or "types" like Event Type, or Contact Type, or Location Type.
Customize the Sorting Order
With listing pages they are automatically set to sort content or media from newest to oldest but you can sort content in alphabetical order by selecting the checkbox "Sort Alphabetically"
If you would like to further customize your sorting using the taxonomy. Within the "Show only" droboxes you can pick which topics. event types, area served or divisions you would like to appear within the listing page. You will just need to make sure you have those content pages tagged with those specific taxonomy.
Customize Document Sorting
If you would like to manual customize the sorting so that documents that were uploaded appear first within the sorting then you can do that by locating the document within your media library and then selecting the edit button.
From the editing page you will scroll down and select the "Authored on" section within the authored on date box you will change the date by selecting the earliest date so that the document will appear higher in the listing or if you want the document to appear lower on the listing then you can change the date to an older date.
