Solutions

  • Manage a SlideShowPro slideshow with Perch

    Friday 30th July 2010

    SlideShowPro is a popular Flash-based application for displaying a slideshow of images. In this solution I will show you how to use Perch to publish content to your slideshow by editing the XML file.

    Posted by Rachel Andrew at 07:00
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  • Add an RSS feed to your news page

    Saturday 20th February 2010

    This article looks at how to use the power of perch_content_custom() and templates to create a simple RSS feed for the news items on your site.

    Posted by Drew McLellan at 12:26
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  • Create an Image Gallery

    Sunday 17th January 2010

    This tutorial explains how to build a basic image gallery using a custom template and Perch’s in-built image thumbnailing ability. This should give you the markup you need ready to layer your favourite JavaScript gallery script on top.

    Posted by Drew McLellan at 16:33
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  • Homepage pulling in latest news item

    Monday 19th October 2009

    In this article find out how to pull the latest news item from your news page onto another page of your site. This is an ideal way to keep a homepage fresh without needing to edit the content in two places.

    Posted by Rachel Andrew at 15:22
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  • News page ordered by date

    Monday 19th October 2009

    This tutorial explains how to create a news page that automatically orders by date using new features in Perch 1.2.

    Posted by Rachel Andrew at 14:38
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  • Create an FAQ page

    Monday 19th October 2009

    In this article we will create an example FAQ page using a custom template. We will also make use of a new feature in Perch 1.2 that enables us to create a list of links at the top of the page jumping down to the individual FAQ answers.

    Posted by Rachel Andrew at 13:10
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