How can I use a custom partial? about blog-plugin HOT 4 CLOSED

@graker Well... yes, why don't I?! :)
I didn't know that was an option. I'll just be over here re-reading all the docs.

(thank you).

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The default.htm partial is fixed, so other developers know exactly where the component starts when called by the {% component %} tag.

The best option would be to have the default partial call your custom one, for example, inside default.htm:

{% partial __SELF__ ~ '::custom' %}

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For those looking for this same answer, here's what I did in order to use a custom post partial.
For my purposes, I not only wanted a custom post partial, but I wanted different post partials for each category.

Here's what my \components\posts\default.htm looks like:

{% set post = __SELF__.post %}

{% if post.categories[0].slug == 'lemon' %}
    {% partial "lemon-post" post=post %}
{% else %}
    {% partial "lime-post" post=post %}
{% endif %}

Then I have two partials, lemon-post.htm and lime-post.htm.

If you only want one custom post partial, then your \components\posts\default.htm will look like so:

{% set post = __SELF__.post %}
{% partial "yourpartialname" post=post %}

This works, but I still find editing \components\posts\default.htm this way to be rather hacky. If I'm only saving my /theme/ folder in git, now I have modifications outside of my git repo that just make things messy.

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Hi, @jcouturier why don't you just override default.htm partial in your theme? Just create blogPost (or whatever name your component has) directory in your theme/partials and put default.htm there. Then this overridden file will be used. See this doc page for more info: https://octobercms.com/docs/cms/components#overriding-partials

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