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!!!
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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.
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.
QUOTE (Milohoss @ Apr 28 2008, 04:39 PM) 
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!!!
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!!!
That's cool... my head is kinda blown by that. Would I just substitue "categoryLabel" or whatever for folder?
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="$categoryname">
HELLO WORLD
<MTElse>
NOTHING
</MTElse>
</MTIfCategory>
</MTCategories>
<ul>
<ul>
<MTCategories>
<li><a href="<$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!!!
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.
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.
QUOTE (Milohoss @ Apr 30 2008, 04:46 PM)
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:
Can you tell me what's wrong? Here's the test page - http://www.climatecycle.com/the-ride/
THANKS!!!
CODE
<MTSetVarBlock name="categoryname"><MTCategoryLabel></MTSetVarBlock>
<ul>
<MTCategories>
<li><a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel regex="RemoveLeadingDigits"$></a></li>
<MTIfCategory label="$categoryname">
HELLO WORLD
<MTElse>
NOTHING
</MTElse>
</MTIfCategory>
</MTCategories>
<ul>
<ul>
<MTCategories>
<li><a href="<$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!!!
Interesting. Maybe the var is not being set at all! If I do this, I get nothing:
CODE
<MTSetVarBlock name="categoryname">HELLLLLLLLOOOO</MTSetVarBlock>
<MTGetVar="$categoryname">
<MTGetVar="$categoryname">
So.... I'm on MT 3.35, is that the problem? Am I missing a plugin?
Thanks!!!
OK, never mind my last rambling, I'm on 4.1 now and got this to work beautifully on the category archives as follows:
However, I'm having a hell of a time getting it to work on the indiv archives. Any ideas? Thanks!
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$></a></li>
</MTEntries></ul></li>
<MTElse></MTElse>
</MTIfCategory>
</MTCategories>
</ul>
<ul>
<MTCategories>
<li><a href="<$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!
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