Expression Engine 2 Next/Previous Entry Linking with Full Entries List

Question

I want to use the Next/Previous Entry Linking technique in EE2:

{exp:channel:next_entry}
    <p>Next entry: <a href="{path='site/comments'}">{title}</a></p>
{/exp:channel:next_entry}

{exp:channel:prev_entry}
    <p>Previous entry: <a href="{path='site/comments'}">{title}</a></p>
{/exp:channel:prev_entry}

When this works, I'm on a single entry ie. awesome.com/index.php/my-cool-entry, I can click page through the entries in that channel.

Is it possible to ALSO display a full list of the entries on this page while I'm looking at one article? I want to be able to show the list of entries as a way to navigate to a particular article.

Think of it like the way {pagination_links} builds links: First Page < 1 2 3 > Last Page except instead of numbers I want to display parts of that entry, rather than just a number.

What bothers me is that {paginate} generates ugly URLs ie. awesome.com/index.php/articles/P1, I'd rather have awesome.com/index.php/articles/my-cool-entry. exp:channel:next_entry/prev_entry preserves the URL_title!

Is there a plug-in that can handle this kind of thing?

The reason that pagination can't use URL titles is that usually you're displaying multiple entries per page. What it sounds like you want to do is to list nearby entries - i.e., the previous X number of entries and the next X number of entries. Is that correct? — Derek Hogue

Brett DeWoody Brett DeWoody · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-11T05:39:20

Embedding a template is the way to go.

Create a new template with an {exp:channel:entries} loop. Within that you can dump out the entries you want and display any info you want from them.

One thing to make sure of is to use the dynamic="no" parameter within the {exp:channel:entries}. It'll go something like this:

In your article page, embed another template:

{embed="article/full_list"}

And within the article/full_list template use a loop like:

{exp:channel:entries dynamic="no" channel="[YOUR CHANNEL]" LIMIT="10"}
    <a href="{title_permalink}">{title}</a>
{/exp:channel:entries}

Expression Engine 2 Next/Previous Entry Linking with Full Entries List

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