Shannon,

To use master view of your site do you just have to update the articulate doc type/s and assign templates?

Regards

Ismail

Hi, No, because the theme is under the plugin folder. I create a theme under the plugin folder and I choose it from Articulate configuration panel. I manage only doctype to customize or add fields. Se here http://www.volaresereni.it/blog/ and http://www.gruppoargentino.it/blog/

Biagio,

Ok I found https://www.marceldigital.com/blog/2015/09/how-to-setup-an-articulate-blog-package-to-an-existing-umbraco-layout so i have got a bit further. My issue is i am using models builder and in my base template i have,

@inherits UmbracoTemplatePage<CoreBasePage>

I have updated the articulate doctype and added composition to it of my base page doctype.

However in the list template i cannot do:

@inherits UmbracoViewPage<Umbraco.Web.PublishedContentModels.CoreBasePage>

because i get

Cannot convert type 'Umbraco.Web.PublishedContentModels.CoreBasePage' to 'Articulate.Models.ListModel'

This is on line,

var articulateModel = (Articulate.Models.ListModel)Model;

Just thinking about how to create articulate list model from my model.

Regards

Ismail

I made this workaround. I create a partial view with this code that list the last six post.

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<IPublishedContent>
@using Articulate;
@using Articulate.Models;
@using Umbraco;
@using Umbraco.Web;
@using Umbraco.Core;
@using Umbraco.Core.Models;
@using System.Linq;
@using System;

@{


    var umbracoHelper = new Umbraco.Web.UmbracoHelper(UmbracoContext.Current);

    var root1 = Umbraco.TypedContentAtRoot();

    var blogA = root1.DescendantsOrSelf("ArticulateArchive").FirstOrDefault();
    //first child of type ArticulateArchive
    //var blogArchive = root.Children.OfTypes("ArticulateArchive").First();

    //var blogRoot = Umbraco.ContentAtRoot().DescendantsOrSelf("Articulate").FirstOrDefault();
    //var blogArchive = blogRoot.Children.First();

    var fivepost = blogA.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible()).OrderByDescending(x => x.CreateDate).Take(6);

    DateTime datapub = new DateTime();

}


  <div class="row multi-columns-row post-columns">

            @foreach (var post in fivepost)
            {
                datapub = Convert.ToDateTime(post.GetPropertyValue("publishedDate"));

                <div class="col-sm-4 col-md-4 col-lg-4">
                    <article class="post format-slider bg-white">
                        <div class="post-preview">
                            <div class="image-slider" data-carousel-options='{"transitionStyle": "fade"}'>
                                <img src="@post.GetCropUrl("postImage", "blogPost400x300")" alt="@post.Name">
                                <img src="@post.GetCropUrl("postImage", "blogPost400x300")" alt="@post.Name">
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="post-content">
                            <h2 class="post-title"><a href="@post.Url">@post.Name</a></h2>
                            <ul class="post-meta">
                                <li>@datapub.ToString("dd") @datapub.ToString("MMM") @datapub.ToString("yyyy")</li>
                                @*<li>By <a href="#">@post.Author</a></li>*@
                            </ul>
                            <p>@post.GetPropertyValue("Excerpt").ToString().Truncate(150)</p>
                            <a href="@post.Url" class="btn btn-lg btn-link btn-base">Leggi ›</a>
                        </div>
                    </article>
                </div>







            }

        </div>

Gist file: https://gist.github.com/biapar/2902f4ee8790af18dcd875a0040d8a32