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Using Auto Meta Data on Tag Page Layouts
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12 years 5 months ago #1145
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Instead of using K2 items as our menu type, we're actually calling in categories with specific tags on it. For example our menu item name is "Basketball", its type is "K2 Tag" and the category it calls in is "Introduction." We're doing this for 66 some top level menu items, with about 10 different categories below. For example:
Basketball (tag: basketball, category introduction)
- Introduction (tag:basketball, category introduction)
- Timeline (tag: basketball, category timeline)
- etc etc etc.
Baseball (tag: baseball, category introduction)
- Introduction (tag:baseball, category introduction)
- Timeline (tag: baseball, category timeline)
- etc etc etc.
This allows us to use only the 10 categories, and have a menu item basically pull in only the category items with the appropriate tag.
So whenever a user visits a page, they are actually visiting the tag.php, not the item.php. This module works awesome on all the item.php pages, but it does not work on the tag.php pages. Just wondering if there's a way to make it work there as well.
Thanks!
- Faye
Basketball (tag: basketball, category introduction)
- Introduction (tag:basketball, category introduction)
- Timeline (tag: basketball, category timeline)
- etc etc etc.
Baseball (tag: baseball, category introduction)
- Introduction (tag:baseball, category introduction)
- Timeline (tag: baseball, category timeline)
- etc etc etc.
This allows us to use only the 10 categories, and have a menu item basically pull in only the category items with the appropriate tag.
So whenever a user visits a page, they are actually visiting the tag.php, not the item.php. This module works awesome on all the item.php pages, but it does not work on the tag.php pages. Just wondering if there's a way to make it work there as well.
Thanks!
- Faye
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12 years 5 months ago #1146
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Replied by mmmaug1977 on topic Using Auto Meta Data on Tag Page Layouts
Hello Faye,
I will check this feature and add it if possible.
You will be notified as soon as finished.
I will check this feature and add it if possible.
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12 years 5 months ago #1147
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Replied by REaction on topic Using Auto Meta Data on Tag Page Layouts
Awesome, thank you for looking into this!
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12 years 5 months ago #1148
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Replied by mmmaug1977 on topic Using Auto Meta Data on Tag Page Layouts
Hello Faye,
Seems I misunderstood you.
I understood that the plugin is not working if an item is called from a page of tag menu type, but I think you want the plugin to work on the tags page itself, correct?
In fact this plugin works on item pages only, this is because an item has a category, extra fields and tags.
But tags and categories don't have extra fields, for example, assigned to them.
If you want a new functionality please explain it so I can tell whether it can be done or not.
Seems I misunderstood you.
I understood that the plugin is not working if an item is called from a page of tag menu type, but I think you want the plugin to work on the tags page itself, correct?
In fact this plugin works on item pages only, this is because an item has a category, extra fields and tags.
But tags and categories don't have extra fields, for example, assigned to them.
If you want a new functionality please explain it so I can tell whether it can be done or not.
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12 years 5 months ago #1151
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Yeah, we're actually not even using the item view, we're loading everything onto the tag.php view. We've created a custom layout to call in the extra fields into the tag.php, but of course there'd be multiple results. You'd end up calling an extrafield alias for a page with 30 items, and get 30 extrafields listed in your key words, so in reality that's not really smart SEO. As a result we've actually decided NOT to use this module for this particular project - but we do like it and will be using it elsewhere. Thank you anyway for your time!
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