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Messy vs. Clean Urls to output category listings in product catalog
Hello. I am building a picture frame product catalog that will make heavy use of categories.
Let us say I have a section of Frames. Categories of silver, gold, black, and wood.
I want to output a list of those categories on one page.
When the user clicks on silver I want all articles within the Frame Section, categorized as silver to appear.
What would be an easy way to do that without a plug in and does the url type (messy or clean) matter.
I guess this would be like building an archive page, which still confuses me a little.
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#2 2006-12-08 01:39:58
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Re: Messy vs. Clean Urls to output category listings in product catalog
If your categories are not going to change much, you can make the list without a plugin (see “categories” attribute). If they are, then you will have to use one.
The urls will need to be at least partly messy (http://yoursite.com/section?c=category) or can be completely messy (http://yoursite.com/?s=section&c=category). If you want otherwise, then you’ll need to find a plugin to support the url scheme desired.
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