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  • Want to post article in multiple categories

    Posted 16 years 8 months ago
    • Ok, I have two sections, "News" and "Sports". When I write a story about a football game, I want that story to show up in Sports under the Football category. However, I'd also like to have it appear in News under a category for a specific school. I've set up a page (category-blog view) for that school where I'd like the article to appear and not just be listed as a "related article." I want to have several pages set up for each school in our area.

      Any ideas? I thought about just posting the story twice, but then it would show up twice in the "Top Headlines" portion of the page.
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    Re: Want to post article in multiple categories

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • Amy, have you found a solution for this? I also need this functionality.
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    Re: Want to post article in multiple categories

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • I've always heard that Joomla is limited to one category per article. Like you said, you could always just copy and paste the same info in two separate articles but that could be painful to keep track of, especially if you then need to update those articles, and your search results would be potentially confusing for users.
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    Re: Want to post article in multiple categories

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    Re: Want to post article in multiple categories

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • Wow, there is something out there. Thanks GollumX.
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    Re: Want to post article in multiple categories

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • could you not do it via tags ...

      i know its not native joomla but there are components .. only a suggestion
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    Re: Want to post article in multiple categories

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • damo wrote:
      could you not do it via tags ...

      Damo, what do you mean? Can you elaborate?
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    Re: Want to post article in multiple categories

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • like you see on blogs .. the tags that the article relates

      see this page as an example:
      www.oleole.com/blogs/the-darkside-of-the...nvents-sexy-football

      basically they have added tags at the bottom of the article that you can filter by. by using a component that allowed you this feature (there are some for joomla) then what you can do is start to use tags as categories also
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    Re: Want to post article in multiple categories

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • Ok, I see the tags, but where is this posted in more than one category?

      BTW the site has some problems, I can't view it in Firefox (blank page) and in MS IE I get internal server errors when viewing some pages.
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    Re: Want to post article in multiple categories

    Posted 16 years 7 months ago
    • thats my suggestion; use tags as your categories ... it's not the cleanest way but one way

      the site is getting fixed ..
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