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14 years 9 months ago #90276 by Adamo
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Good evening at all guys, i'm a new k2 user but not new to Joomla!.I've used the default com_content right now but when i discovered k2 i loved it! It's the best flexible content component i've found!

But there is a great limitation.
Let's go in order.

In a first time i've create a lot of categories: they reflected the topics i cover in my site. But some of the topics are repeated in more categorie. As example i have the categories "Shopping cart" (where i write about magento, prestashop, ecc.) and the category "Marketing" (where i write about web marketing, Facebook, Twitter and other marketing techniques). In both these categories i have the sub category "News".
So, i thought "Why not use the tags to organize contents?". I insert the following tags:
- Shopping Cart
- Marketing
- News

So i like to create a menù structure like this:
- Shopping Cart
  - News
- Marketing
  - News

But i can't create a menu item that shows only articles with both tags "Shopping cart" + "News". I can use only one tag. So I can't handle articles that can be inserted in 2 or more categories and show them in each category.

I'm forced to create a category and than filter tags in it. But so doing i obtain an url like this: mysite.com/blog/shopping-cart/article.html while i want an url like mysite.com/blog/article.html

I think that, in less of an appropriate solution (can anyone tell me one?) it's very useful to make manageable more tags than only one creating a tag type menu item.

Or can i obtain the same result in other ways, without use more sub categories? (I want only one category "Blog" in which i create each article - for url rewriting reasons, i want an url like mysite.com/blog/article.html).

Very thanks at all!
Adamo

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13 years 11 months ago #90277 by Adamo
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As we can wait for the next releases of K2 i think this could be a good idea, also because it's not only a problem of mine but also of other users.

 

See, for example, those topics:

community.getk2.org/forum/topics/multiple-tag-menu-item?comm...

community.getk2.org/forum/topics/add-a-category-made-by-tags...

community.getk2.org/forum/topics/how-can-i-add-an-article-to...

 

To avoid duplicate content issues it could be possible to use the canonical meta tag based on the primary category (the others are secondary). And the primary category could be used also for the SEF url.

 

So, inserting an article in multiple categories and selecting multiple tag in menu items, K2 will be really flexible (and better than Joomla! itself that permits to set only one category and non tags!).

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