Using routes to have a collection and still show on homepage

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I am getting a little confused with the routes.yaml

I have the following setup at the moment:

  /:
    permalink: /{primary_tag}/{slug}/
    template: index
    filter: tag:-[guide,patch-notes,film-news,news]

  /guide/: 
    permalink: /guide/{slug}/
    template: guide
    filter: tag:guide
  
  /patch-notes/: 
    permalink: /patch-notes/{slug}/
    template: patch-notes
    filter: tag:patch-notes
  
  /film-news/: 
    permalink: /film-news/{slug}/
    template: film-news
    filter: tag:film-news

  /news/: 
    permalink: /news/{slug}/
    template: news
    filter: tag:news

Now this works so that all 4 of these tags have their own page, and do not show on the homepage.

The issue is that I still want the film-news and news tag to show on the homepage but if I remove the tags from the filter, the collection page still exists but shows no posts at all.

I have tried everything to get this to work but have come to the forums to see if anyone else has managed to fix this issue? or if it’s a bug?

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Collections take all posts that match them in the order they occur. So posts go to the first one that matches them.

You may want to look at setting up a channel instead of a collection.

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Thanks Cathy, I’m annoyed at myself for not thinking of using the channel instead of collection.

Just changed it all now and it worked straight away, lol.

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Hey, would you be able to share how your routes look now please. I’m trying to customize my homepage too, but don’t know how to use channel routing :(

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Of course mate, this is my current routes.yaml:

routes:
  /signup/: members/signup
  /signin/: members/signin
  /account/: members/account
  /offline/: offline
  /sitemap/:
    template: sitemap
    content_type: text/xml
  /news/rss/:
    template: news/rss
    content_type: text/xml

  /film-news/: 
    controller: channel
    template: film-news
    filter: tag:film-news
  
  /news/: 
    controller: channel
    template: news
    filter: tag:-[guide,patch-notes,film-news]

  /patch-notes/: 
    controller: channel
    template: patch-notes
    filter: tag:patch-notes

  /game-guides/: 
    controller: channel
    template: guide
    filter: tag:game-guides

collections:
  /:
    permalink: /{primary_tag}/{slug}/
    template: index
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