By fubarthepanda on

I was wondering if anyone has any experience filtering content summary blocks based on tags.

For example, for the Blogging module, the "Recent blog posts" block displays (intuitively enough) a summary of recent blog post links. My immediate need is to be able to filter this list based upon the currently selected tag, so that only "recent blog posts" that are similarly tagged are displayed. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do this to other content summary blocks such as Forum topics, Calendar events, News articles, etc., essentially making these elements automatically tag aware.

I've reviewed the underlying PHP code and I can see where I can programmatically create my own content blocks, but I wanted to check with the community to see if there was a feature or module that I was unaware before embarking down this road.

Thanks in advance for any helpful advice.

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fubarthepanda commented

We ended up creating a custom module that enables us to do dynamic filtering for blogs, filters and custom content types based on currently selected tag. It also trapes up and down the taxonomy for "neighboring" tags if the filter results don't bring back a minimum amount of results.