By Frazzled on

I am having a really hard time with this taxonomy stuff. What I want to do seems simple, but getting it configured has been a nightmare. Here is an example (yes, blogs are turned on!).

I create 4 blog categories: Cats, Dogs, Birds, and Fish. Then I go to post a message. The four categories show up with drop-down boxes, but all the boxes have "none" in them. So I can't assign the blog post to any of them. How can I do that?

Next, I'd like for the blog categories to appear in the left column, and clicking on any of them would take the user to that section of the blog. For instance, clicking on "Dogs" would display all the blog entries filed under "Dogs", beginning with the most recent. I haven't been able to do this, either.

No doubt I'm missing something obvious here, but even after reviewing the docs, I'm still stumped. Any and all help with this is much appreciated. Thanks.

- Frazzled

P.S. This is Drupal 4.6

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Comments

slower’s picture

slower commented

It sounds like you've created a separate vocabulary for each of your blog categories, when what you're really after is a vocabulary called something like "Blog Topics" populated with the terms Cats, Dogs, Birds, and Fish.

As for a block with your taxonomy terms, try the Taxonomy Block module (http://drupal.org/node/15192).

schwa’s picture

schwa commented

You've just stayed one level too broad, which is easy to do with Drupal: what you've done, in essence, is create BIG empty boxes (vocabularies) that have no shelves (terms) onto which you could organize your stuff (blog entries). Being a hyperorganized little program, it won't let you just drop stuff into the boxes without first putting up some shelves to catch it.

I'd erase what you've done, then create a new vocabulary called blogs, or topics, and then add terms (cats, dogs, fish etc) to that vocabulary; follow the links in the admin>categories page ("add term").

To get a list of your terms as a menu, there's a module called Taxonomy Block that gives you a prefab menu that you can then position to the left under administer>blocks.

Frazzled’s picture

Frazzled commented

Thanks, slower and schwa. You cleared that up for me nicely. I've got the category thing settled now (glad I'm just working with a test site and not live). I also found a way to get the listings I want without using the Taxonomy module (but I have it downloaded, just in case). Whew!

- Frazzled