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Creating a Blog in Evolution CMS, Part 4: Showing Articles on the Homepage
A practical lesson on moving from static layout work to rendering real blog articles on the homepage.
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This is one of the most important points in the series because the project finally stops being just a shell and starts behaving like a real blog. Showing article cards on the homepage is where content modeling, output logic, and design all meet.
That makes the lesson useful even outside the exact demo project, because the same pattern appears in many Evolution CMS sites that need a current-posts or featured-posts front page.
What this video covers
- rendering article output on the homepage
- connecting content entries to the front-page layout
- turning the homepage into a live editorial surface
Transcript-based summary
- works through the homepage article area by pulling real content details instead of placeholder text
- uses fields such as the description to improve how image texts and preview blocks are rendered
- pushes the homepage from design shell into a usable article-driven front page
Source: YouTube video. Channel: SeigerIT.
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