Using content from post on collections base page

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I have a five part post series that I want to publish under a custom collection I will define in routes.yaml.

On the collections base page, example.com/collection/, I want to have a brief explainer about the collection/series. My thought was to publish a post with that information with the same url, but the custom collection overrides the post.

Does someone help me find a way to do this?

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Hey @adalsteinnk! You could use the content from a page and use the #get helper to pull that page content into the top of the collection page? That’s how I would do it. Take a look at the docs about using the #get helper to pull content from a certain page or post:

(See the {{#get "posts" id="2"… example)

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That did it!

Thank you :smiley:

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Hey @DavidDarnes

Would you mind showing me the correct usage for this?

If I’m trying to add content from a page to match a collection, how would I match the collection slug to the page?

{{#get "pages" filter="slug:{{current}}"}}

Thanks in advance.

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I’m not sure this will work, but I suppose you’ll want to change current to the current page slug. What are you trying to achieve? Page content for each collection page?

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hey @DavidDarnes

any thoughts on how I can change the meta title on a collection page?

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Hey @DavidDarnes

Thanks for getting back to me. I hope you are well sir.

Yes, what I would like to do is have a landing page for each collection with an intro. Something similar to this page: Phu Quoc - Cruising Vietnam. However, with this page, I’ve built a collection template just for that collection. I was wondering if there was a way to do this dynamically matching a page URL or tag to a collection.

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Please don’t clutter forum threads with other topics that aren’t relevant. I’ve chipped in on the original thread

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Would it not be cleaner to use tag descriptions for this? Seems the most suitable I think, because that’s what they essentially are :blush:

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I apologize for hijacking

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Hey @DavidDarnes thanks for the reply. I wanted more than 500 characters as I’d like to use that collection page as a pillar piece with the ability to add images, etc. But it’s fine, I’m just going to create a template for each collection. That way I have more control and flexibility over the content. Thanks so much for your help, really appreciate it.

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Ah I see! Sorry I wasn’t able to help more accurately, but pleased you found a solution :blush: