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#1 2007-01-19 07:44:25
- WebKat
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Categories, sections, and some stupid questions
Ok there is just such a huge amount of information available through the help and forum that it’s actually a little hard to answer some specific questions, especially if the main way to search for them is by using search terms like “category” where you get nine thousand hits.
So first off… I’m confused by what the purpose of “sections” is. I categorize my articles under things like “humor”, “personal”, “food” etc… but these are categories. The menu on the side by which you browse topical articles lists the categories. Seems like categories is what I need. But then some functions only want to show things by section… and all off them are in the section “articles” so it’s useless. I’m just confused as to what the purpose of each is. (It seems, for example, that the links to next/prev article at the bottom go to the next within that section not the next within that category, so it’s pretty useless.) Do I need to have a section AND a category for each category I want? And if so, what is the point in duplicating everything like that?
Next is when you use the dropdown list to go to a category… you see the articles that are in the category, but you don’t see the subcategories. What is the purpose of nesting categories if you can’t browse down to them from their parent? Is there a tag I’m needing to add? Right now my category pages show the title and exerpt with a link. I would like to put something at the top, before the articles, that shows the subcategories, with links to those pages.
Next is the issue of keywords… what purpose do they serve? I tried searching in hopes that the articles with the search term as a keyword would come up, but they don’t. How do you access anything about the keywords? Ideally I’d like a set of links at the bottom that shows the keywords that I’ve set, with links, and when you click the links you see the other articles that I’ve set that keyword for. Also, is it possible to have two-word keywords? Like “book reviews” or “science fiction”? I know I could run them together as one word, but that’s ugly.
Thanks, and I hope I don’t sound like too much of an idiot.
(Also, all of my articles currently end with a stray “<” and I haven’t been able to find it in any of the form or page templates… I’ll try on my own for another day or two before I freak out and ask for help here, though)
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Re: Categories, sections, and some stupid questions
sections have to do with presentation, (you can have various templates and sections refering to them). Categories is how your content is ‘distributed’.
Re parent/child categoris check out category_list
You can use the keywords field in the head meta_keywords which might help with the search engines
Last edited by colak (2007-01-19 10:01:38)
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#3 2007-01-19 17:42:52
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Re: Categories, sections, and some stupid questions
Ok, so if I want things like the prev/next articles at the bottom to be related to the article, I need to duplicate my category list as a section list?
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