Thanks to your support and excellent extension I have integrated a blog and also search on the website (development) https://jug-fn.riedener.com. However, I guess I still have a few points not understood correctly!
Link to the blog
With https://jug-fn.riedener.com/blog-filter/category/blogs/blogs the desired four subcategories to blogs are shown to me and are perfectly available for filtering. What I am missing is the "clear" function over everything. Currently I have to click the menu again for that.
With the search (menu position) the same display also works fine.
Of course I would like to use the link to the blog with a menu URL https://jug-fn.riedener.com/blogs. Can I do something about this in the settings or do I have to make a redirect to the link mentioned above?
Sorry to bother you again with such trivial questions.
Thanks and best regards
Heinz
Support
JFilters Optimization
Latest post by Heinz-R on Wednesday, 22 February 2023 16:56 EET
Hi
If you are looking for a "Clear" link over your filters, you can enable the respective "Show Clear" setting in each filter.
If you are looking for a link that resets/clears all the filters, you can create a custom module, with a link that points to the desired url. You can put that module below the filters to look like it is integrated.
I also have some suggestions:
Your tags filter has many options and it's hard to find what you are looking for.
I suggest enabling the List Search feature
Also maybe the use of a scrollbar would be good.
Kind regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer
Hi Sakis
Thanks a lot for your hints abount the selection. That's fine and I guess that I understood this part of the game!
But: what I cannot understand and cannot find a tutorial for is: how to build the menu for the overall view with the blog-posts within all the categories Grundlagen + Tipps+Tricks + Ausbildung + Diverses without using a direct URL like:
https://jug-fn.riedener.com/blog-filter/category/blogs
I'd like to show all those posts by clicking on the menu item "Blog" and by clicking on "Clear" for the categories. But clear the categories ends with an empty page.
Some more details attached.
Regards
Heinz
Hi Heinz
I'd like to show all those posts by clicking on the menu item "Blog" and by clicking on "Clear" for the categories. But clear the categories ends with an empty page.
Clearing the category clears the page's context, hence there is nothing that indicates what to show and loading all the articles in that case can be really intensive in terms of performance, as it has to trace the filters from all the articles.
Possibly the solution is a template override in the filtering module, that changes the clear url to your preference for the categories.
Kind regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer
But if you want my advise, disable the "clear" option from the categories.
I find no reason why someone have to clear the page's category, instead of selecting another one.
This is the primary filter that gives context to the page, hence maybe is not a good idea to be empty.
Regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer
Thanks a lot for your hints how to solve "my problem".
I guess, I'm going to build an override with "all categories" instead of "clear" and using the link which is in use to open the blog page.
Would I be able to shorten the link from "https://jug-fn.riedener.com/blog-filter/category/blog" to "https://jug-fn.riedener.com/blog" and still to display all subcategories of the (empty) category "blog"?
Currently the menu position "Blog" ist a menu type "URL" - maybe not the best solution?
Regards,
Heinz
Hi
Would I be able to shorten the link from "https://jug-fn.riedener.com/blog-filter/category/blog" to "https://jug-fn.riedener.com/blog" and still to display all subcategories of the (empty) category "blog"?
Not sure how to shorten the url. It has to be a functional url to work though.
Kind regards,
Sakis Terzis
Founder and Lead Developer
Thanks Sakis!