How to Force category filter?

  • Arden012

    (@arden012)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    For a new project I’m working on, I need to be able to filter all content on one specific category, including menu-links,etc.

    Say I have a blog about food with several subjects and a blogpost can be about one or multiple of the following subjects
    -thai food
    -indian food
    -mexican food,
    etc.
    Combined with several other categories which are included in the main menu like:
    -Restaurants
    -Take-away
    -Delivery
    -Recipies,
    etc.

    Now what I want to achieve, is that the visitor can filter the content based on subject. So if a visitor selects the filter ‘thai food’, every article should be about the subject thai food. If the visitor navigates to ‘restaurants’ in the menu when the ‘thai food’ filter is on, their should only be thai restaurants returned.

    How would I go about and do this? Of course I could retrieve a custom menu for each subject, but there must be a smarter way! Any help would be greatly appreciated

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  • Thread Starter Arden012

    (@arden012)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Rephrase:

    Okay i’m having a bit of a catogorisation/taxonomy/filtering problem here and am at loss on how to solve this.
    I hope someone could help me on the way a bit.

    Say i’ve got a blog about food, with a few main subjects;

    thai food
    indian food
    greek food
    mexican food
    french food
    spanish food
    fast food
    A blogpost is always tied to one or multiple of these subjects (a blogpost about a fajita is just filed under ‘mexican food’, a blogpost on ‘burrito’ under both
    ‘mexican food’ and ‘fast food’).

    Then there are different categories like

    restaurants
    reviews
    information
    news
    take-out
    recipies

    Blogposts are also always tied to one or multiple of these categories. These categories are available through the menu.

    What I want to do is, offer the visitor a possibility to filter all the content on a specific subject. If one would
    chose to put the filter on ‘thai food’, all the articles returned should be about thai food.
    If one would chose the category reviews while the filter ‘thai food’ is on, it should only list articles about
    thai food within the category reviews (and any other categories it might be in).

    So there it is! Now I realize I might have explained this in a difficult way, but that’s why I need your help ;).

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