Hi guys, simple question.
I’ve createed the block and added specific categories to be displayed in it.
So far so good.
Please take look at the screenshot – I have a question about it.
1. What by default goes into section that is marked as ‘1’ on the screenshot?
It seems that it simply picks random category from the list I specified in “Ajax dropdown – show the following IDs”. In our case it shows the category Driver’s License, as indicated by #2.
2. How can I control it what goes in to section 1?
Shuffling catgories IDs in “Ajax dropdown – show the following IDs” doesn;t change anything.
Hello,
The 2 elements you mention are found in the block settings: https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-guide/
number 1 is controlled from the FILTER tab
number 2 is controlled by the AJAX FILTER tab
Thank you!
OK, I get the idea but Im really confuse.
Let me illustrte what’s going on.
1. If I specify 65 in Multiple categories filter (screenshot – http://imgur.com/a/vm9VE) everything works ok – it displays content of this category in Section 1 as shown in the screenshot in my original post.
So fat so good, works as it should.
2. The problem starts when I specify in the same filed multiple categories – screenshot http://imgur.com/a/SAcgy
The porblem here is that I don’t seem to ba able to control the order in which categories are displayed, for example:
a) If I di this: 1903, 172, 73, 75 – I ger one result, but if I shuffle it like this:
b) 75, 1903, 172, 73 – it makes no difference it is displayed in the same order in the main window (section 1 in my originnal post)
c) Even if I add one more category – 65, 1903, 172, 73, 75, the order still the same
So the question remains – if I specify multiple ategories – how ca I control which one of the is displayed first in the area 1
Hi,
The block displays posts on modules. When you enter the category ID’s the posts displayed will be from those categories, but affected by the post sort order – https://www.screencast.com/t/d88YyiXo which by default is set to Latest, so you will always have the latest posts from those categories. If you would like to have the posts from a specific category only then you must enter just one category ID, or select one from the category filter.
Thanks
but affected by the post sort order – https://www.screencast.com/t/d88YyiXo which by default is set to Latest, so you will always have the latest posts from those categories
Thakns but it still doesn’t explain which category gets the first pick.
What you saying is that: if you specify in the filter: 23, 24, 25, 26 then the latest posts will be displayed from those categories, but I till don’t understand how can I make sure that latest post from speific category will be diplayed first.
I this case, whether I specify 23 in the fits place or 25 doesn’t change a thing.
thank you very much.
Hi,
The posts that are displayed first are based on the sort order, from those categories. For a latest post sorting, if you add posts only to one of those categories they will be displayed first. If a post has multiple categories, then a primary category has to be set to control this – https://forum.tagdiv.com/primary-category/
A solution in your case would be to use different blocks filtered by specific category so they only display posts from that category. There is no option for a case with multiple category filtering to assign priority categories.
Thanks
