EasyBlog categories vs menu items
By Gregor on Saturday, 18 November 2017
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Hi,

Sorry, this is a difficult one to explain, but I'll try. We are using EasyBlog (with EasySocial).

In EB we have created several post categories and subcategories - see screen caputure. As you can see we have three "level 0" categories: "News", "Documents&Presentation" and "Pages". We unpublished the previous level 0 category "Articles" (because we didn't think we needed it).

In the frontend we have two EB menu items: "News" and "Documents". These two menu items render the posts from the respective categories "News" and "Documents & Presentations" - see screen capture. These two menu items have "Articles" as their parent menu item.

We start seeing some strange things happening with the URL's, which seems to suggest that somehow the categories and menu items are not in synch. For example:

1. Under "News" we have 5 subcategories. If you check the URL's you can see that these are consistent:
Community of Practice: https://www.myanmarwaterportal.com/articles/news/community-of-practice.html
General News: https://www.myanmarwaterportal.com/articles/categories/2-general-news.html

2. Under "Documents" we have a subcategory "Water Academy" and a sub-sub category "Thesis:
ttps://http://www.myanmarwaterportal.com/articles/documents/water-hub/dutch-water-sector.html
https://www.myanmarwaterportal.com/articles/categories/20-thesis.html

We also had individual articles that we categorised under "Documents" to get an URL that posted them in "News".

Now that we start publishing content with EasyBlog within the EasySocial pages (we bought the integration app), we want to make sure we are doing the right things in terms of categories and menu items structure.

Thanks for your advice!

best,
Gregor
Hey Gregor,

Yep, EasyBlog will actually respect the menu structure and this is how it's being done in Joomla too
Mark
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Friday, 01 December 2017 01:35
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Hi Gregor,

Kindly find my response for your inquiries below:
1. Under "News" we have 5 subcategories. If you check the URL's you can see that these are consistent:

-> I believe you meant to say that the link wan inconsistent isn't it? The reason the 'General News' is inconsistent url with the 'Community of Practice' is because you did not create the menu for that category yet, where it will follow the default category menu structure. Same goes to inquiry #2

We also had individual articles that we categorised under "Documents" to get an URL that posted them in "News".

-> I'm not entirely sure what you mean by here, do you mean you want the link in the blog post belong to category 'document' using url 'news' example: yoursite.com/articles/news/blogpost ? If yes, unfortunately it is not possible where it will shows the category where it belongs to.
Muhammad Fadhli
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Monday, 20 November 2017 10:42
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Hi Fadhli,

Thanks for your response. I hope you don't mind I probe a bit further because this is pretty critical for how we continue using EasyBlog.

Can you advise specifically with regards to the fact that we have an EasyBlog Category structure that is different from the EasyBlog Menu structure? See screenshot 1 & 2.

If indeed those structures would need to be identical, should we:
(1) eliminate the 0-level "Articles" menu from the EasyBlog menu, OR
(2) add the "Articles" category as the level 0 category in the EasyBlog categories.

Thanks!

Gregor
Gregor
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Monday, 20 November 2017 16:05
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Hi Gregor,

I thinks you misunderstand the issue here
okay let me explain again, by default, if you did not create a single category for each category you have it will use the default url structure as:
yoursite.com/easyblog-frontpage-alias/categories/id-your-category-alias

which in your case is
http://www.myanmarwaterportal.com/articles/categories/id-your-category-alias

if you create a menu for the category it will using the menu structure url
as example you create as shown here: http://take.ms/5XYfI
when you access the category it will using these url structure (menu url structure instead of the default above)
yoursite.com/menu(structure)/id-your-category-alias

where in your case is
http://www.myanmarwaterportal.com/articles/news/category-alias


So now may I know do you want the category url structure using the menu url structure as below?
yoursite.com/menu(structure)/id-your-category-alias

if yes, you need to create each of the categories have their own single category menu
Muhammad Fadhli
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Monday, 20 November 2017 17:33
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Hi Muhammad,

I believe we want to eliminate the articles category (in easyblog and in the menu). So we have 3 root categories. How do we set that up in the menu?

Regards,
Mark
Gregor
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Monday, 20 November 2017 18:18
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Hi Mark,

The only way to make it is make the article menu(EasyBlog frontpage) as a default homepage
Muhammad Fadhli
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Monday, 20 November 2017 18:54
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Hi Muhammad,

Haha yes that's it! I tried to make 3 root categories in EB and in the main-menu. It works fine?! Can we continue this way?

Regards,
Mark
Gregor
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Thursday, 30 November 2017 21:39
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