Hi Christine

Try this code, please:

var newsItems = newsOverview.Descendants().Where("NodeTypeAlias == @0 || NodeTypeAlias == @1 || NodeTypeAlias = @2 || NodeTypeAlias = @3", "familyNutritionItem", "newComersNutritionItem", "nutritionItem", "umbNewsItem").OrderBy("publishDate desc, createDate desc");

Hope it will work.

Alex

But be aware that dynamics are not best practice for Umbraco. Christine, what version of Umbraco are you using?

try please this one:

var newsItems = newsOverview.DescendantsOrSelf().Where("NodeTypeAlias == @0 || NodeTypeAlias == @1 || NodeTypeAlias = @2 || NodeTypeAlias = @3", "familyNutritionItem", "newComersNutritionItem", "nutritionItem", "umbNewsItem").OrderBy("publishDate desc, createDate desc");

can you show a screen of your structure?

Christine, the structure of your content pages.

Try this code, please:

@inherits UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
    Layout = "umbMaster.cshtml";

    int pageSize = 8; // How many items per page
    int page;          // The page we are viewing

    if (!int.TryParse(Request.QueryString["page"], out page))
    {
        page = 1;
    }

    // If the editor has not explicitly provided the "Page title" property page 
    // then just show the name of the page otherwise show the provided title
    var pageTitle = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(CurrentPage.Title)
        ? CurrentPage.Name
        : CurrentPage.Title;

    // Model.Content is the current page that we're on
    // AncestorsOrSelf is all of the ancestors this page has in the tree
    // (1) means: go up to level 1 and stop looking for more ancestors when you get there
    // First() gets the first ancestor found (the home page, on level 1)
    var homePage = Umbraco.AssignedContentItem.AncestorsOrSelf(1).First();    

    // Find all pages with document type alias umbNewsOverview
    // We do that using the plural, umbNewsOverviews (note the extra "s" in the end)
    // Then take the first one, as we know there will only be on news overview page
    var newsOverview = homePage.Children.First(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("umbNewsOverviews")));

    // Similar to above: find all pages with document type umbNewsItem under the news overview page
    // Then order them, first by publishDate (a property the editor can explicitly set on the news item)
    // and then by createDate, which is set by Umbraco automatically when a page gets created.
    var newsItems = newsOverview.DescendantsOrSelf()
        .Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("familyNutritionItem") || x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("newComersNutritionItem") || x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("nutritionItem") || x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("umbNewsItem"))
        .OrderByDescending(x => x.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("publishDate"))
        .ThenByDescending(x => x.CreateDate);

    int totalItems = newsItems.Count();
    int totalPages = (int)Math.Ceiling((double)totalItems / (double)pageSize);

    if (page > totalPages)
    {
        page = totalPages;  
    }
    else if (page < 1)
    {
        page = 1;
    }
}

@{ Html.RenderPartial("umbInsideBanner"); }
<!-- Main -->
<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col s12 m12 l9">
            <div class="row">
                <article>
                    @foreach (var item in newsItems.Skip((page - 1) * pageSize).Take(pageSize))
                    {

                        // If the editor has not explicitly provided the "Page title" property page 
                        // then just show the name of the page otherwise show the provided title
                        var title = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(item.GetPropertyValue<string>("Title")) 
                            ? item.Name 
                            : item.GetPropertyValue<string>("Title");


                        // If the editor has not explicitly set the publishDate property then show the create date
                        var dateTime = item.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("publishDate") == default(DateTime) 
                            ? item.CreateDate 
                            : item.GetPropertyValue<DateTime>("publishDate");

                        <div class="col s12">
                            <div class="card">
                                <div class="card-content">
                                    <section>
                                        <h4><a href="@item.Url">@title</a></h4>
                                        <span>@item.GetPropertyValue("subHeader")</span>
                                        <ul>
                                            <li class="blog-timestamp">@dateTime.ToString("f")</li>
                                        </ul>

                                        @if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(item.GetPropertyValue<string>("blogImage")) == false)
                                        {
                                            <a href="@item.Url" class=""><img src="@item.GetPropertyValue("image")" alt="" /></a>
                                        }


                                        @Umbraco.Truncate(item.GetPropertyValue<string>("blogContent"), 100)

                                        <div class="card-action">
                                            <a href="@item.Url">Continue Reading...</a>
                                        </div>
                                    </section>
                                </div>
                            </div>
                        </div>

                    }
                </article>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="col s12 m12 l3">
            <!--<nav class="white">
                <div class="nav-wrapper">
                    <form method="get" action="../search-results">
                        <div class="input-field">
                            <input type="search" id="keywords" placeholder="" name="keywords" value="" /> 
                            <label class="label-icon" for="keywords"><i class="material-icons">search</i></label>
                            <i class="material-icons">close</i>
                        </div>
                    </form>
                </div>
            </nav> -->
            <div class="card">
                <div class="card-content">
                    <span class="card-title card-title-newsletter">Subscribe and stay updated with our FREE newsletter.</span>
                    @Umbraco.RenderMacro("NewsletterForm")
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="card">
                <div class="card-content">
                    <a class="twitter-timeline" data-height="560" href="https://twitter.com/MenuSano">Tweets by MenuSano</a> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="card">
                <div class="card-content">
                    @{ Html.RenderPartial("umbLatestNewsWidget"); }
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>    
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col s12">
            @for (int p = 1; p < totalPages + 1; p++)
            {
                if (p == page)
                {
                    <span style="font-size:large;padding-right:10px">@p</span>
                }
                else
                {
                    <a href="?page=@p" title="Go to page @p of results" style="font-size:large;padding-right:10px">@p</a>
                }
            }
        </div>
    </div>

</div>
<div class="parallax-container">
    <div class="parallax">
        @{
            if (CurrentPage.HasValue("bottomBannerImage"))
            {
                var dynamicMediaItem = Umbraco.Media(CurrentPage.bottomBannerImage);
                <img src="@dynamicMediaItem.Url" style="display: block; transform: translate3d(-50%, 381px, 0px);" alt="@CurrentPage.altText" />
            }
        }
    </div>
</div>
<!-- /Main -->

Hi Christine

Ouh, sorry, just remove extra parenthesis at line 28:

var newsOverview = homePage.Children.First(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias.Equals("umbNewsOverviews"));

Thanks,

Alex

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