By stevefree on

What I'm looking for is quite simple, I'm looking to get the same category "display" and navigation system as I get in my WordPress blog. See screenshot: http://www.corrisa.com/categories.jpg or goto http://www.potteryguy.com/wp

With drupals tagging system (taxonomy) all my posts are tagged however to get them to display I need to install a complex category module which I don't want to do.

I've looked at a few other alternatives such as Directory: http://drupal.org/project/directory however it lacks what I need out of the box and being that I'm no DEV...... :) I can't make a block for it although it appears to do everything I'm looking for. Here it is running: http://www.potteryguy.com/sitemap

Thoughts?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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xmacinfo
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commented

I'm using Taxonomy Menu module for this.

The only thing you will loose is the number of post between parentheses '(' and ')'.

Very simple to install and administer.

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stevefree’s picture

stevefree commented

Thanks for the tip xmacinfo. I'll give that a shot. Although the loss of the # of posts per Taxonomy is a bummer, it might not be a deal breaker.

Anyone else? Any plans to add # of posts to the Taxonomy Menu module?

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Kris Jenkins commented

On our site http://goldbuzz.bullionvault.com we do this using the views module. It gives the list you're looking for both as a page and a block, with node counts in brackets.

We don't use hierarchical categories, so YMMV, but here's the recipe (v4.7):

  $view = new stdClass();
  $view->name = 'Categories';
  $view->description = 'Articles by category';
  $view->access = array (
);
  $view->view_args_php = '';
  $view->page = TRUE;
  $view->page_title = 'Archive by category';
  $view->page_header = '';
  $view->page_header_format = '1';
  $view->page_footer = '';
  $view->page_footer_format = '1';
  $view->page_empty = '';
  $view->page_empty_format = '1';
  $view->page_type = 'teaser';
  $view->url = 'categories';
  $view->use_pager = TRUE;
  $view->nodes_per_page = '20';
  $view->block = TRUE;
  $view->block_title = 'Archive by category';
  $view->block_header = '';
  $view->block_header_format = '1';
  $view->block_footer = '';
  $view->block_footer_format = '1';
  $view->block_empty = '';
  $view->block_empty_format = '1';
  $view->block_type = 'list';
  $view->nodes_per_block = '10';
  $view->block_more = '1';
  $view->block_use_page_header = FALSE;
  $view->block_use_page_footer = FALSE;
  $view->block_use_page_empty = FALSE;
  $view->sort = array (
    array (
      'tablename' => 'node',
      'field' => 'created',
      'sortorder' => 'DESC',
      'options' => '',
    ),
  );
  $view->argument = array (
    array (
      'type' => 'taxletter',
      'argdefault' => '4',
      'title' => 'Archive by category - %1',
      'options' => '',
      'wildcard' => '',
      'wildcard_substitution' => '',
    ),
  );
  $view->field = array (
    array (
      'tablename' => 'term_node',
      'field' => 'name',
      'label' => '',
    ),
  );
  $view->filter = array (
    array (
      'tablename' => 'node',
      'field' => 'status',
      'operator' => '=',
      'options' => '',
      'value' => '1',
    ),
  );
  $view->exposed_filter = array (
  );
  $view->requires = array(node, term_node);
  $views[$view->name] = $view;