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#1 Today 09:58:07
- PeterB
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- From: Roosendaal, Netherlands
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Navigation structure
Hi all,
I’m a new user and I was wondering how to setup my navigation in Textpattern.
This is what I want to achieve
Archieven
——————Provincie
———————————-Archieven (a page with linken for different archives)
—————————————————-Info page (discription/info over a certain archive)
Is this possible within Textpattern.
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Re: Navigation structure
Hello, welcome to the forum.
Most navigation structures are totally possible with txp, but it is not quite clear what you want to construct: a menu tree, a breadcrumb (path), an article URL? Is it an isolated case, or you need some kind of automation for multiple sections of your site?
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#3 Today 13:18:52
- PeterB
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Re: Navigation structure
Okay, I’ll try to explain it better. I want to create a menu on the left side of the website. One item in this menu will be, for example, “Archives.” When visitors click on this, two things will happen. To the right of the menu, an article will open with a brief explanation of this item. There will also be links in the menu under Archives, multiple menu items that are sub-items of Archives. When you click on one of these sub-links, another article opens next to the menu, this time containing web links to specific archives. When you click on one of these links in this article, another article opens containing all the information about that particular article. My question is: can I build this menu structure in Textpattern, and how do I structure my articles in the backend?
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Re: Navigation structure
Hi peter, and welcome to txp.
Before digging into your query would it be OK if we speak about structure and taxonomy?
Txp navigation can be built by hand or dynamically. Whatever it is, you will need to decide what will the structure of your site be and how large you plan this site to become… ie if you plan to have many articles in the depth of time, or if you already know that it will be a fine number of articles.
If you plan for a finite number of articles, which is possibly not the case as you mentioned the word Archives twice in your request, then all you need is a custom, hand written menu, but if you plan to have many articles a category menu, an old example of which can be found on textpattern.tips/categories-navigation-menu-with-consistent-urls could be can be of help.
The next step will be to build what the landing page of each category will be, but before we go there, we’d like to know more of the planned content of your site in order to help you properly.
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#5 Today 14:51:04
- PeterB
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Re: Navigation structure
I’m currently setting up a website for people involved in genealogy/family tree research, specifically aimed at Dutch users. The website will be offered exclusively in Dutch. Visitors will find information on everything related to genealogy, including: – Explanations of various software packages (functionalities, support, user-friendliness, etc.) – Archives (where to find a specific archive, a brief explanation of what can be found in that archive, etc.) – AI Tools (e.g., Transkribus, Facial Recognition; are there other AI tools already available, could AI play a larger role in family tree research in the future, etc.) – Pitfalls (what to watch out for to avoid errors) – etc. The Archives section will consist of 12 pages, and each of these 12 pages will be expanded by at least 1 page, up to a maximum of 3 pages. The Software section will become even larger than the Archives section. More of these sections will be added over time.
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Re: Navigation structure
Okay, based on your description, here is a minimal template. I’d just warn you that txp is a kind of lego, there is not many out of the box constructions, but you can assemble various elements to construct almost everything. So:
- Create few Sections (
Software,Archives, etc) - Create correspondingly named article Categories (
Software,Archives, etc) - Create sub-Categories of each Category as needed
- Publish some articles in each Section, assigning them to various sub-Categories
Now the following construction (put, say, in some article for testing) should get you started:
<txp:section_list wraptag="div" break="details">
<summary><a href="<txp:section url />" target="content"><txp:section title /></a></summary>
<txp:category_list parent='<txp:section />' wraptag="ul" break="li">
<a href="<txp:category url />" target="content"><txp:category title /></a>
</txp:category_list>
</txp:section_list>
<iframe name="content"></iframe>I use html details and iframe here, but this is only for illustration purpose.
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