Special Category Navigation (menu Concept) Options

[Milohoss]

Hi guys, it's been a while, but need help with something I don't *think* should be too hard.

On my CATEGORY ARCHIVE pages, I want to have the following in a sidebar: A list of all categories, with recent entries broken out under the category that I am currently looking at. Thus, if I am in the APPLES page:

BANANAS
PRUNES
APPLES
> apple article
> apple article
> apple article
GRAPES
MANGOS

Likewise, I'd like the same sort of nav on each indiv archive page too. Any thoughts?

Thanks!!!

[caribou sue]

Hi Milo,
I just figured this out for pages and folders, but entries and categories are the same idea.
It was way harder than I thought it would be, but maybe there's a more elegant way to do it.
See this post for the code.

Hi guys, it's been a while, but need help with something I don't *think* should be too hard.

On my CATEGORY ARCHIVE pages, I want to have the following in a sidebar: A list of all categories, with recent entries broken out under the category that I am currently looking at. Thus, if I am in the APPLES page:

BANANAS
PRUNES
APPLES
> apple article
> apple article
> apple article
GRAPES
MANGOS

Likewise, I'd like the same sort of nav on each indiv archive page too. Any thoughts?

Thanks!!!

[Milohoss]

That's cool... my head is kinda blown by that. Would I just substitue "categoryLabel" or whatever for folder?

This post has been edited by Milohoss: Apr 30 2008, 03:59 PM

[Milohoss]

Can you help me with something really basic? If I can get past this, then I think I'm ok. Just a simple list of categories with the current category having the word HELLO WORLD under it. Here's what I'm trying, obviously doesn't work:

CODE

<MTSetVarBlock name="categoryname"><MTCategoryLabel></MTSetVarBlock>

<ul>
<MTCategories>
<li><a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel regex="RemoveLeadingDigits"$></a></li>
<MTIfCategory label="$categoryname">
HELLO WORLD
<MTElse>
NOTHING
</MTElse>
</MTIfCategory>
</MTCategories>
<ul>

Can you tell me what's wrong? Here's the test page - http://www.climatecycle.com/the-ride/

THANKS!!!

[caribou sue]

Hi Milo,
Hmm.. It might be that when you define $categoryname, you'll need to tell MT that you want the current entry's category. How about:
<MTSetVarBlock name="categoryname"><MTEntryCategory><MTCategoryLabel></MTEntryCategory></MTSetVarBlock>
Does that work?

When in doubt, it helps to throw <MTGetVar="$categoryname"> in there so you can see how the variable is defined, and troubleshoot why it's not matching up.

Can you help me with something really basic? If I can get past this, then I think I'm ok. Just a simple list of categories with the current category having the word HELLO WORLD under it. Here's what I'm trying, obviously doesn't work:

CODE

<MTSetVarBlock name="categoryname"><MTCategoryLabel></MTSetVarBlock>

<ul>
<MTCategories>
<li><a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel regex="RemoveLeadingDigits"$></a></li>
<MTIfCategory label="$categoryname">
HELLO WORLD
<MTElse>
NOTHING
</MTElse>
</MTIfCategory>
</MTCategories>
<ul>

Can you tell me what's wrong? Here's the test page - http://www.climatecycle.com/the-ride/

THANKS!!!

[Milohoss]

Interesting. Maybe the var is not being set at all! If I do this, I get nothing:

CODE

<MTSetVarBlock name="categoryname">HELLLLLLLLOOOO</MTSetVarBlock>

<MTGetVar="$categoryname">

So.... I'm on MT 3.35, is that the problem? Am I missing a plugin?

Thanks!!!

[Milohoss]

OK, never mind my last rambling, I'm on 4.1 now and got this to work beautifully on the category archives as follows:

CODE

<MTSetVarBlock name="categoryname"><$MTCategoryLabel$></MTSetVarBlock>

<ul>
<MTCategories>

<li><a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a></li>

<MTIfCategory label="$categoryname">
<li><ul class="navver"><MTEntries lastn="30" offset="1">
<li><a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a></li>
</MTEntries></ul></li>
   <MTElse></MTElse>
   </MTIfCategory>


</MTCategories>
</ul>

However, I'm having a hell of a time getting it to work on the indiv archives. Any ideas? Thanks!