resolved: category cloud that leads to articles ? I checked plugins

JimJoe · 2014-04-26 15:45:43

I tried ‘mir_category_cloud’, but was unable to figure out how to get it to wrap. Currently it puts one category on a line. It has a ‘wraptag’ keyword, but I couldn’t get it to work.

I also tried ‘arc_popular_category_cloud’, but I couldn’t get it to work at all.

Basically I am looking for a category cloud, the user clicks on a category listed in the front page of my site’s cloud, and they then see a list of articles using that category.

Is there a plugin or textpattern markup that does this ?

Thanks !

Last edited by JimJoe (2014-04-28 13:37:26)

GugUser · 2014-04-27 04:24:53

<txp:category_list />, see more …

JimJoe · 2014-04-27 14:22:35

Thanks ! I’ll check into that.

JimJoe · 2014-04-27 14:37:36

I still get a column of categories, even empty ones. My attempts at wrapping the list hasn’t worked.

children set to zero worked.

JimJoe · 2014-04-27 14:44:07

Ah, break =” , “ did the trick to wrap it. Clicking on a category that has articles leads to an articles list.

But I do need a way to not show empty categories.

here is the site

category cloud at the bottom of the page. I probably need to lighten up the page background color to.

Last edited by JimJoe (2014-04-27 14:45:48)

colak · 2014-04-27 16:26:19

JimJoe wrote #280418:

But I do need a way to not show empty categories.

Hi Jim, I think that you can achieve what you want if you replace the <txp:category_list break="," /> with:

<txp:variable name="hasarticles"><txp:article_custom limit="1" category='<txp:category />' wraptag="" break="" /></txp:variable>
<txp:category_list wraptag="" break=",">
<txp:if_variable name="hasarticles" value="">
<txp:else />
<txp:category title="1" link="1" />
</txp:if_variable>
</txp:category_list>

JimJoe · 2014-04-27 17:05:34

Didn’t make any difference. I have 18 articles in the articles list, but no 11, so at most I should see 17.

GugUser · 2014-04-27 22:07:42

What is your Textpattern version? Maybe this single tag variable works:

<txp:variable name="hasarticles" value='<txp:article_custom category=''<txp:category />'' limit="1" />' />

etc · 2014-04-28 08:26:17

Hi folks,

the <txp:variable name="hasarticles" /> definition is misplaced, it should be inside <txp:category_list>...</txp:category_list>, and actually unnecessary:

<txp:category_list wraptag="" break=",">
	<txp:article_custom limit="1" category='<txp:category />'>
		<txp:category title="1" link="1" />
	</txp:article_custom>
</txp:category_list>

There still will be two problems:

comma-separated empty items
performance

The best solution is not to create “empty” categories.

JimJoe · 2014-04-28 13:36:59

I am using txp 4.5.5. I created all of the categories I’ll be using with this site so I could make sure they were nested under the parent ones they belonged to.

@GugUser, no text shows up.

@etc, it works fine, and exactly the way I want it to. I took out the comma. Multiple word categories, both words are joined by an underscore. As you note, the comma shows as a large number of them.

JimJoe · 2014-04-28 13:45:32

Page loading time is slower as you mention. Only returns one article, but I hesitate in increasing the limit to all of the articles.

GugUser · 2014-04-28 13:51:39

JimJoe wrote #280437:

@GugUser, no text shows up.

I meant to replace the container tag variable with the single tag variable.

This works and filters the categories with articles.

<txp:variable name="hasarticles" value='<txp:article_custom category=''<txp:category />'' limit="1" />' />
<txp:category_list wraptag="" break=",">
	<txp:if_variable name="hasarticles" value="">
	<txp:else />
		<txp:category title="1" link="1" />
	</txp:if_variable>
</txp:category_list>

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