Question

I’ve been searching and trying for 2 days to change the view for the RecentBlogPosts content type that appears on my homepage. I want to display the title and a phrase from the posts.

I have managed to find a view that shows the title for each post, but I haven’t managed to figure out what the other parts in the Model are named or how to extract the text.

Help will be GREATLY appreciated !

@using Orchard.ContentManagement;
@using Orchard.Core.Routable.Models;
@using Contrib.Hyperlink.Fields;
@{


  IEnumerable<object> blogPosts = Model.ContentItems.ContentItems;
}
@if (blogPosts == null || blogPosts.Count() < 1)
{
    <p>@T("No posts.")</p>
}
else
{
   <div class="content-items">
   @foreach (dynamic post in blogPosts)
   {
            string title = post.Title;
            ContentItem item = post.ContentItem;

   <div class="blogpost" style="width: 300px; padding-left: 15px; float: left;">
         <p class="content-item-summary">@Html.ItemDisplayLink(title, item)</p>
   </div>

   }
   </div>
}

The above code was (mainly) from Bertrand Le Roy‘s blog, for which I thank him.

Answer 1

The ContentItem is a BlogPost content item, which contains BlogPostPart (from Orchard.Blogs.Models namespace). So you can use any properties it has – checkout the link to the source code I provided above.

This part has the Text property, which returns the Html from corresponding BodyPart (which BlogPost type has attached too) under the hood.
And btw – Remember to use @Html.Raw(part.Text) to display the fetched content.

One more thing – for making life easier I’d rather cast that iterated objects to BlogPostPart to get Intellisense:

@foreach (var post in blogPosts.Select(p => ((IContent)p.ContentItem).As<BlogPostPart>())) 
{ 
    ... 
}

HTH