Using File Fields Part 2: Templating

By Doug Black · January 7, 2021 · Watch in 12 minutes.

In this video, we will create our blog templates and use our file field in our loops.

What We Do

Create our first Template Group
Explore the Channel Entries tag
Create our first channel entry tag in our template
Limit a channel entry with the url_title parameter
Add some design

Code Snippets

Channel Entries For Blog Loop

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" limit="3" dynamic="no" disable="categories"}
    <h1>{title}</h1>
    <h2>{featured_image}</h2>
    {blog_content}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Channel Entries Loop With Segment

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" url_title="{segment_3}"}
    <h1>{title}</h1>
    <h2>{featured_image}</h2>
    {blog_content}
{/exp:channel:entries}

File Field Implementation

{!-- You can do it as one tag --}
<img src="{featured_image}" />

{!-- Or as a tag pair --}
{featured_image}
    <img src="{url}" alt="{title}" />
{/featured_image}

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Doug Black

Doug is the developer and founder at tripleNERDscore. He is also core contributor to, ExpressionEngine!