Using categories as subdomains!

Trograin · Post by **Trograin** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:33 pm

Hi everyone!

Wanted to share my choise of fixing a small thing that in my eyes was a problem.

I recently putted up http://environmental-idea.org (Swedish) for my university group of environmental students. I had to putup multiple categories that could be showned seperatly like subdomains. No problemo. Each and every category got its own theme(Leaf that I multiplyed into 6 exact versions (leaf1, leaf2, leaf3 ....)) Then I created links in the main top bar to each and every one of them.

My problem then became that whenever I wrote the main url I got to the blog where all the entries in all the categories where showned, not a good thing.

I have tryed a bunch of different approaches untill I gave up and simply used URL forward teknik

Simple putted that the main url would be showned towards the url where the Category I wanted to be comign up first. Now whenever someone is writing environmental-idea.org they jump straight to my category of choise as number 1.

Though I wish I could do it in a simpler way, for example in the category plugin possibility to choose what category I want to be main one so that the default one dosent jump up and give all entries in one single blog or category if you like.

Trograin · Post by **Trograin** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:44 pm

Extended properties for entries

That plugin lets you hide your entry from article overview / frontpage.

I will ahve atleast 10 to 20 Authors writing in this blog and belive me when i say this, No way they will remember to click in this feature whenever they are writing an entry for a specific category

I would lvoe to be able to config in the admin area the frontpage to work the same way as subdomains (Categorys with there own templates).

I hope someone from the developer team sees this and says if its possible or not for the future

Col. Kurtz · Post by **Col. Kurtz** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:06 pm

There is a front category plugin, that shows only entries from one specific category on the frontpage, that might be helpful!

Trograin · Post by **Trograin** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:50 pm

There is???

Have to take a look at it, would help a lott

Thanx mate, I check it out

Trograin · Post by **Trograin** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:08 pm

Okkkey, cant find any plugin that will do what I need, no frontend category plugin either

I allready have the plugins that let me asing templates to different categories, in that way the entries will be showned only on that category, EXCEPT the Default overview / frontpage where they will still all be showned if you dont choose specificlly that you dont want your entries to be showned on the frontpage.

http://www.environmental-idea.org (Fixed up with URL forwarding on my DNS provider), url that its beeing forwarded to is:
http://environmental-idea.org/index.php ... /6-Nyheter

I amusing that one now as my frontpage...its a workaround I simply dont like

http://environmental-idea.org (Cant be fixed up with URL forwarding couse then the domain name itself will disapear...and helllooo that is not good

)

So as long as peopel write with www. infront there is no problems, but if they dont......then they come to the frontpage and still se all the entries from all categories

Trograin · Post by **Trograin** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:10 pm

Except that it sometimes work atleast while I dont empty my browsers cache

weird problem

Col. Kurtz · Post by **Col. Kurtz** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:09 am

Trograin wrote:Okkkey, cant find any plugin that will do what I need, no frontend category plugin either

hmm I dont know why this plugin is nowhere to be found, because I USE this in one of my blog installations!

create a new folder within the plugin folder called serendipity_event_startcat, then put this file in it: http://www.marc-gaertner.de/file.txt and rename the file to serendipity_event_startcat.php

I hope this will work. I gotta ask Garvin why this plugin isnt in the repository anymore.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:28 am

(Added plugin to CVS)

Regards,
Garvin

Trograin · Post by **Trograin** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:56 am

wow, youa re really fast to respond people and to add more plugins.....Impressive

Trograin · Post by **Trograin** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:15 am

Works fine now. that plugin is great, love it

Col. Kurtz · Post by **Col. Kurtz** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:28 am

thank garvin he´s the reason why s9y is so great!
good we could help. its one of my favorite plugins!

Trograin · Post by **Trograin** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:24 pm

Thank you Garvin

Love Serendipity. Will port my entries over from my personal blog to a serendipity blog allso, skipping all the blog searchings now. I have found my new lover in the blog universe, Serendipity, the queen of Blogs

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:23 pm

I still can't find it. This is almost exactly what I'm looking for, too. S9y 0.9-beta2, SPARTACUS 2.4.

Col. Kurtz · Post by **Col. Kurtz** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:20 pm

look here:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/p ... _startcat/

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:39 pm

I set sourceforge.net to be my file mirror in SPARTACUS, but neither of the XML metadata mirrors currently includes the plugin in its list. I guess I'll have to install it manually.

Thanks.