Using a second blog for a testimonials page

Question

Hi,
I'm building a site for someone who will be purchasing the webMarketing hosting plan so I won't have access to any webApps. To get around this problem, I've created a second blog to be used to manage testimonials. I've created a page and have inserted the following module tag:
        {module_blogpostlist,12775,3 template="/ModuleTemplates/Testimonials/testimonials-list-alt.tpl"}
The above references the testimonials blog with an ID of 12775 and it points to a custom list layout. When I test though by loading the html page, it shows the default list layout used for blogs under Module Templates and not my custom one.
I just wondered if anyone could tell me if it's actually possible to use an alternate list and detail layout for a second blog?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
I've implemented this and a little video gallery as well using the blogs. Just make sure you are referencing the correct template file and that it's extension is .tpl and not html. You can see a live example here. Testimonials
Here is a copy of the code I used with pagination as well. You will need this to get the pagination working.
jPages
        <script>
  /* when document is ready */
  $(function() {
    /* initiate plugin */
    $("div.holder").jPages({
      containerID: "itemContainer",
   perPage: 4
  </script>
HTML
<div class="holder">
        </div>
        <ul id="itemContainer">
            {module_blogpostlist,12460,100 template="/ModuleTemplates/WebApps/Testimonials/testimonials-test.tpl"}
        </ul>
        <hr />
        <div class="holder">
Hope this helps