mu sitewide tags – multiple tag blogs selected categories

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    (@nickyb713)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    Overview: I’m in the process of creating a sizable blogsite that hosts 70+ blogs. The Mu sitewide tags plugin is currently installed and I’m using the primary blog as the tag blog for the site.

    Link: http://geekpowwow.com/

    Question:
    I’m not sure if this is possible with the mu sitewide tags plugin, but essentially what I would like to do is have multiple tag blogs that only post articles from selected categories.

    Using my site as an example, if a viewer clicks on “computer hardware” in the navbar I would like to have a computer hardware tag blog that displays the posts of all the blog categories in the menu.

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    (@nickyb713)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Does anyone know of a way to achieve something like this?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    12 years, 11 months ago

    If the aggregated posts are in categories then you can treat it like regular cats and sort it that way, but you can’t have multiple tags blogs.

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    (@nickyb713)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for responding and all the help in the past. : )

    My knowledge of php is fairly limited, but I can get by. Is there an easy way of achieving this?

    The aggregated posts are in categories, but I need to create a new blog that will post the articles for around 20 different categories from other blogs on the network.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Given that you can do multiple tag/category queries in WordPress, I would think that you could just do that on your tag (i.e. aggregate) blog and have ONE blog and cheat the rest.

    http://wpguy.com/articles/multiple-tag-category-queries/

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    (@nickyb713)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Thank you so much! This is what worked for me:

    http://geekpowwow.com/?categories/memory,mice

    I also tried adding “?categories/memory,mice” to the end of a path on a new blog for the heck of it, but it didn’t work which wasn’t surprising.

    The only thing that would make this perfect is if I could somehow place a title at the top of the content section. Any ideas?

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    (@nickyb713)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    I think my best bet is going to be to write a script, but this will def work in the mean time. Thanks again.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    The only thing that would make this perfect is if I could somehow place a title at the top of the content section.

    You’d do that in your theme files.

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    (@nickyb713)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    It’s not a regular page, how would I go about editing the theme to add a specific title for a query search?

    For instance, here’s a link that I use for “Pc’s & Laptops” from my site’s menu:

    http://geekpowwow.com/?categories/desktops,laptop-accessories,laptops-notebooks,netbooks,tablets

    I was under the assumption that I would just need to create a new page and write a script that gets posts from the categories by id.

    If there is an easier way to achieve this please let me know.

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