Hi, I am just starting to learn about Newspaper6 and I have a question on Categories.
Looking at the demo, there is a section: Dont Miss – this has a menu of many category names
However, looking at the section:LIFESTYLE NEWS there is a menu with fewer category names on them.
What I cant figures out is how to change the items that appear on the menu of each section. If I go to edit the block, I can select filter and I see a drop down box to select a single category. This is set to -All Categories which seems to be the default. If I enter the categories required into the slug box, this makes no difference. Is this because the drop down above is set to -All Categories, in which case what setting should I use.
Would welcome any help on understanding this
Many thanks
Alex
Hello Alex.
The category filter you are modifying is not the ‘menu’ but the posts that appear on the block itself. The menu is actually the ajax filter (the other tab) http://screencast.com/t/eAnaTLCDxp9 You can select all the categories to display here (or tabs or authors) or you can set them by hand using the categorty ID (or tag id or author id)
http://screencast.com/t/RCbXqE4WZkH You can get the ID like so: http://screencast.com/t/px8coJut
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Very many thanks, and yes that now works as I want it.
One other question, If a user wants to read all of the specified categories am I able to add ‘All’ before the category ID’s, or will that simply display all categories irrespective?
Thanks
Hi,
You can see this option in the ajax filter settings. http://screencast.com/t/jVswBwmWC If you type any name here, there will be a first menu item that has the default sorting for the posts (the one from the filter tab). If you do not type anything in this field, that first menu item will not show up.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
