The issue: Is there a way that a user can choose a specific „page“ to add content to?
More specific:
I want to relaunch my (Drupal) travel website with the NewsPaper theme.
So the content is always built up on specific country pages and a community is submitting the content.
The idea is to use the main menu, probably with “pages”, to choose a destination (Europe, Spain).
Then each article should have to choose one or more topics (sights, food, activities) which would be shown through different blocks. My idea was to use the Categories for that.
For example, there is an article about “Top Sights in Barcelona”.
Europe (page) – Main menu
– Spain (page) – Main menu / child menu beneath Europe
– – Barcelona (page) – Main menu / child menu beneath Spain
– – – Article “Top Sights in Barcelona” (post) with the category (sights)
As Travel Dudes is a community, it’s important that submitting content is user friendly & very easy.
The user should be able to choose the destination (continent & country), but also in a different widget/box the topics (sights, activities, adventure) when they submit a post.
So there should be two different fields to submit that info:
– choose destination (continent / country)
– choose topic (sights, food…)
I can only see the categories widget. Is there a way that a user can choose a specific „page“ to add content to?
Hi,
Users can interact with the website according to their role capabilities
– https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
Each user has it’s predefined capabilities, for example authors can log into the website and create posts, also assign the categories and tags needed for the post. Pages can be created by editor level users and above.
The posts will be displayed in blocks, grids etc. Each page can contain the post displaying elements that you want, filtered and sorted as you want
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/tagdiv-composer-tutorial/
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/block-settings-guide/
You can create as many pages as needed, each displaying different content as needed.
A category hierarchy can be created like you mention, with category parents and sub-categories. Categories will have their own pages as soon as created, they will display posts only from the respective category.
In the menus you can place categories, pages, posts etc
– https://www.screencast.com/t/JQvUSPoRfXY
If I missed or misunderstood something please let me know.
Thanks
Thanks a lot for the quick reply.
That was pretty much all clear. What I don’t see is, that a user can choose a specific page to submit the content to.
The pages shall be used to list the content of a destination.
Then the user as well chooses a category (sights, food, adventure). That’s easy, as it’s in the “add posts” widget.
But where can the user decide the main menu section?
It would make no sense to built everything with “categories”, as that would mean a huge mess of finding the right continent, country (worldwide) & then somewhere in between a topic (food, sights…).
Let’s take the News Paper demo as an example: https://demo.tagdiv.com/newspaper/
Let’s say “Lifestyle” is a page & the “Travel” & “Recipes” in the sub-menu as well. How can the user choose to submit content for the one or other?
Each block on the frontpage should show the continents & in the block sub-menu should be shown the different topics.
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I was thinking of working with tags, but it’s not working either.
The topics should be fixed. So users should not be able to add new ones. And when adding/choosing the topics, the user should have right away the complete overview of those.
Some topics might also got sub-topics like:
See/Do
– activities
– sights
– museums
Food
– street food
– restaurants
That’s why “categories” is useful for the topics.
Is it possible to have two separate widgets with categories? So that one would be for countries & the other for categories?
Or is it possible to use taxonomy with the News Paper theme to built this?
Can hierarchical taxonomies be used with the News Paper theme for the main menu?
Can it be used in the “Appearance – Menus” section?
Hi,
Let’s take an author for example. He creates a post and publish it on the website. The author chooses the categories and tags he wants the post to have. The post will appear in the category pages and tag pages accordingly. The author can’t create actual pages or choose where the post is displayed.
The website admin or editor (only ones with access to pages) will create pages and place blocks, grids etc. These pages can display whatever content possible with the tagDiv composer and the articles they choose.
All the capabilities of wordpress user roles are mentioned in the WordPress codex mentioned above.
The menu can be accessed by admin only, he can modify/add/remove the menus. Only the admin can access the theme panel as well.
The Lifestyle item in the demo menu is a mega-menu, that works only with categories, it will not display pages
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/mega-menu/
Pages can be displayed in drop-down menus, or added directly in the main menu.
The theme capabilities in the matter of taxonomies are limited, most options and elements will work only with categories and tags
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/custom-post-type-support/
The custom post types and taxonomies will not have the same settings and options as default posts and categories.
Hi Simion,
thanks for your reply. I was on holiday & offline, that’s why I only reply now.
To use your example, the author would submit a post & would choose a category (topic) “things to do” & add different tags “weekend getaways”.
But then the author would also have to choose the country where this post would be listed beneath “Europe -> Spain -> Barcelona”.
It would be a horrible user experience to use categories also for the countries, as it would then show countries & the topics in one list to choose from. That would create a big mess for the user.
The tags won’t work either, as it should have a parent menu (Europe & Spain) & it should be fixed, not a variable.
So I was thinking of adding a second “Categories” box. Another solution might be to use “Hierarchical Taxonomies”. Is that possible with the Newspaper theme?
Helo,
The theme can only sort the posts based on categories and tags by default.
Our theme does not have hierarchical taxonomies. Sorry. Maybe you can find plugins that can offer this type of implementation but we cannot recommend any as we have not tested such plugins.
Thanks.
Thanks Bogdan!
I was hoping for a different answer, 😉 but no worries.
You should consider to include hierarchical taxonomies in future versions, as I’m sure there would be many others who would love to have those, too. I’m sure that I’m not the only one who is frustrated building a site only on categories.
But thanks for your quick support here!
