Hello!
I’m migrating my website from another theme to Newspaper. The website is a media aggregator type of thing. We have a podcast category, in which different podcasts have one post that contains some information about the show and a player.
I’m looking for a way to implement some sort of an ajax filter (like the homepage blocks) on the category page. I need for my users to be able to easily pick what type of podcast they’re looking for, and see those posts come up. And the subcategory listings that come up on some of the category page templates (3, 4, 8, etc) don’t do the job. I don’t want users taken to another page, I’d like the results on the page to filter right there, and have the filters available the whole time so people can switch around what they have selected.
To get an idea of what I’m talking about, you can visit the current site’s podcast page at benevore.net/podcasts
I picked Newspaper because I thought it could handle organizing a lot of information, and if there’s not a way to implement this, I’ll be very disappointed.
Hello,
You can try to use visual composer and a tab element to have different sorting options on each tab. Unfortunately this is only available for pages, not for category archives.
Here is an example of what I mean: https://www.screencast.com/t/ByTKINqN9XwE
You can add a different block with different content under each tab section.
Thank you!
I can handle making a page, but will I be able to set that page to display instead of the user seeing the category page? In other words, am I able to create a replacement category page?
Hello,
I’m not sure why you want a category page to display like this when even your example is a standard page not a category: https://www.screencast.com/t/HCzMfRdhY
You cannot edit categories as you would pages. We have not encountered any builder that can do this. Our own page builder cannot do this, visual composer cannot do this or other builders we have seen.
Categories cannot be handled as pages. You will not be able to add custom content to a category. Sorry.
Thanks.
