Best way for users to browse older content?
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- darinb
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Is there some great way to have users browse old content?
The bottom of the page navigation is out...way to user-unfriendly. I like the page created by making a new menu item of type table-->content category but I can't find any way to make it choose multiple categories. Is there a way?
Some other solution? Stop me before I spend any more hours browsing the Joomla extensions page...
--Darin
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- Mack
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Not really sure what you are trying to accomplish. By old content you mean stuff that has expired or no longer published? Do you have an example?
Is it static content? Is it regular category stuff?
You could just build a new category and call it old content, move or copy old stuff into it, then create a menu to old stuff I guess.
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- darinb
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Hi there,
Thanks for the response. I'm talking about regular category stuff.
On my page I put new articles or new videos up and the old stuff migrates down the page. At some point it falls off the front page. I need a way for the reader to browse through all this stuff that has migrated off the front page.
Probably some simple Joomal concept I'm missing.
Making a new category sounds good except that that would add steps to each article I publish--I would prefer if the CMS did more of the work.
What I would like is something like the results the search utility gives--a headline/link and a bit of the text. Is there any way to set up the search so it defaults to some sort of "select all" wildcard--so when the viewer chooses it it comes up with every article ever published, in reverse order, with ten or so to a page? Something that simple.
What do other people do with old content on news-style sites?
--Darin
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- Bob Ateah
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There is the Archives feature, have you looked at using that?
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- darinb
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I've played with the archive module as bit...as far as I understand it it requires me to manually "archive" each article as it comes of the front page. That seems like needless extra work--a cms should provide automation!--plus I think I'm guaranteed to miss articles once in a while, sending them into never-neverland.
I went through the Joomla extensions page and for the life of me I can't find anything that will simply display "all content as a list."
I'm surely missing something (I hope!).
can anyone point me to news sites using Joomla--places where I can see how they've implemented dealing with old content? I'm looking...
--Darin
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- William Fay
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Is all your content you want to display in the same section with different categories
If not.. I would suggest doing it this way that way you can link to the specific section and it will display all..
Easiest solution I can think of off hand.. I'm gonna look around
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- darinb
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I have it set up as different sections and categories right now, but the site just opened so there is still time to go back and change that if need be.
Another poster--I thought it was here but don't see it now--suggested using the blog-content section menu item. He pointed out that it will allow you to choose different sections.
That gets me partway there--now the content is showing--great! But it looks ugly and there seems to be only limited controls. Is there third-party blog software that allows more formating options?
I'm sort of amazed I'm stuck on this point--either I'm missing something basic about how Joomla works and the answer is right in front of me (highly likely) or Joomla is missing some rather obvious and critical functionality!
--Darin
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- phlux0r
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Have you seen the
AutoArchive Bot
? Would that be of use to you?
Of interest could also be the DeepPockets2 extension.
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- darinb
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Hi,
Thanks--yes, I've seen the autoarchive bot--good except that I'm trying to avoid the whole archive thing...\
However, i did discover the Deep Pockets extension the other day and installed it--it seems like just the thing--except that i don't understand how to use it! Do I make a new, catch-all category and link the others to it? Or...? I'll look at it again...
Almost makes me wish for the "simplicity" or Drupal! ha ha
--Darin
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