Single page API

[Hindrik]

Hi there!

Amazing work on the external API integration. I’m currently trying to synchronize an external marketplace to our website and so far it’s working great. However, now I’m at a point where I want people to click on one of the ads where it should open the specifics for this add. In short, I’m having my archive setup done, but having difficulties creating a single.
Is this possible at all? I mean the URL’s aren’t being made so I’m thinking something like a pop-up screen. If this isn’t best practise, please let me know. Maybe it’s better to implement WooCommerce and sync it like that.

Oh and another question. How do I add pagination to the data. The API returns about 80 results that I’d like to show on different pages.

Thanks!

[charlie]

Are you trying to link to these pages? Or display the page data in your site? If it’s a full URL, you can setup a modal that contains an iframe. If you want to link to another page you can setup another page, send a URL param to that page (EX /your-single-page?external_id={{dc:looper:field key="id"}}), Then on your page you can utilize that parameter through Dynamic Content ({{dc:url:param key="external_id"}}) grabbing any data you would need. Pokemon part 2 goes over query parameters briefly.

Pagination currently requires custom code unfortunately which we can help you out with through https://theme.co/one. It’s something we will eventually solve globally when we integrate Twig into Cornerstone. Dynamic Content docs here if that helps https://theme.co/docs/dynamic-content-api

Let us know if you have any other questions and have a great day.

Dynamic Ways to use External API Data in WordPress with Cornerstone (Episode 2)