Short update on this. I also tested the 'not show any featured item' if statement. Compared to the statement above it causes the whole website to break. I receive a blank page.

I'll try to play with it this weekend.

Great. Let me know if you need any help.

Hey Markus, just wrap the following portion of the foreach statement as shown.

 

if ($this->item->featured) {

        echo $this->loadTemplate('item');}

 

The syntax for not featured is:

 

if (!$this->item->featured) {

        echo $this->loadTemplate('item');}

Awesome. I will try this and let you know.

It's working Terry. Good job. Unfortunately there's another problem: Your code generates a "itemContainer" div no matter if the 'if-function' matches or not.

This causes a lot of empty div containers that are breaking the layout. For instance if you're working with a two column layout for the secondary items there will be a lot of rows only displaying one item. It's like having empty placeholders.

My first approach was preferrable for just this reason, but I couldn't ever get it to work consistently.  Not sure why.  Give me a link to your site, may be something we can do in css.

Terry - I found a solution for this. I just placed the code snippet in front of the div container...simple but useful.

 

Great. Glad you got it working.