How do I make a "real" blog category menu?
deeptii - February 8, 2006 - 15:49
Hi all,
Sorry if this question has its answer somewhere on this website. I swear I have searched for several hours and still couldn't find the answers that I need.
What I want to do is very simple. I want to set the category of each blog entry (content type is page or story or something else maybe? i don't use the blog module), and make a block displaying all the blog categories. When the user clicks the category it shows a list of blog entries belonging to that category.
I thought of using Book, but that doesn't quite do the thing! Arg, does second level menu items *HAVE* to be a page itself? In that case... I will need to code in PHP to get the effect that I want?
Please help if you can... thank you.
Either an extra taxonomy module or...
You have a few options. First you can look at the extra taxonomy modules available for download. At least one of them generates a menu block.
But for Seen On Slash I created a custom block with ul and li tags set to the same classes as the navigation menu (view source on your site and you'll see what I mean). In the li tags I made my own links to the taxonomy pages. I also made links to other specific nodes. This only works well for me because my taxonomy never changes, isn't too big, and doesn't need expanding/collapsing menus. It's also nice that I can add non-taxonomy links easily.
Another option is to install the menu module. By customizing your nav menu you can add any links you want, including ones that expand and collapse automatically. It's great but I've found it hurts performance a little. Plus this only works if you want your categories mixed into your regular navigation menu (AFAIK).
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Menu module is part of
Menu module is part of Drupal core so it only needs to be turned on. Once you turn it on you can create a new menu seperate from your default Navigation menu. Each new menu automatically creates a new block that can be enabled/disabled in the admin / blocks area. You can also control the visibility there as well.
More information on the menu module can be found here in the handbook
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thanks for the replies~ i
thanks for the replies~ i have found a way to link to the taxonomy pages now~ :-)