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#1 2012-06-21 18:07:46

rossharvey
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[Core 4.4.1] List - and navigate - through category only

Evenin’ TXP gurus :¬)

Is there a way – preferably using core code – to list articles from a specific category, and limit the next/prev links to that category?

Here’s the context, I’ve been adding all wedding blog posts under the weddings section (obviously!), and I’m now wanting to add a portfolio section to showcase/promote a handful of weddings.

Rather than create a new section – portfolio – and move those selections (I assume this would change the post’s URL to <site>/portfolio/<title> from <site>/wedding/<title>, and break links and google indexing), it would be much easier to simply assign a category named portfolio, and then filter using that on it’s own page.

Can 4.4.1 do this? :¬)

On a side note, if you change the name of a section, is TXP intelligent enough to keep the old blog post URLs, or will it break?

Last edited by rossharvey (2012-06-21 18:17:36)

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#2 2012-06-21 18:17:08

Bloke
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Re: [Core 4.4.1] List - and navigate - through category only

Don’t think the core can do it, because article_custom can’t navigate next/prev. But these might help, in this order of potential usefulness:

  1. Roll your own with a few plugins and this tutorial
  2. smd_horizon
  3. aks_article (though I don’t know if it offers pagination)

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#3 2012-06-21 18:19:37

rossharvey
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Re: [Core 4.4.1] List - and navigate - through category only

Why is it Stef, that you’ve always made a plugin for something I need? :¬)

Awesomeness!

Edit: I hope you’re on the core team for TXP5.

Last edited by rossharvey (2012-06-21 18:28:41)

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#4 2012-06-21 18:32:43

joebaich
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Re: [Core 4.4.1] List - and navigate - through category only

Hello Ross,

You can do that with the plug-in txp:jk_neighbour. I don’t recall seeing a core code solution but sometimes I have difficulty remembering my own name. I used the plug-in a couple of years ago in conjunction with txp:chh_if_data:

<txp:chh_if_data> <p>More in the same category &nbsp; &nbsp; <txp:jk_link_to_prev cat="current" sortby="title"> << <txp:prev_title/> </txp:jk_link_to_prev> &nbsp;&nbsp; | &nbsp; &nbsp;<txp:jk_link_to_next cat="current" sortby="title"> <txp:next_title /> >> </txp:jk_link_to_next><p> <txp:else /> <p>[This is the only <txp:category1 /> currently in the collection.]</p> </txp:chh_if_data>

Last edited by joebaich (2012-06-21 18:41:10)

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#5 2012-06-21 18:45:35

rossharvey
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Re: [Core 4.4.1] List - and navigate - through category only

Thanks Joe!

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#6 2012-06-21 18:50:41

Bloke
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Re: [Core 4.4.1] List - and navigate - through category only

Awesome Joe, forgot about that one. I’ll add it to the data bank so it comes at the top of any such lists next time.


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