How to add additional top-level navigation category and subpages in TextPattern CMS? - textpattern

Question

I am new to TextPattern CMS.
How can I add additional top-level navigation categories and subpages to our current TextPattern-based CMS and website?

Answer 1

You'll probably want to use a combination of Categories and Sections.
According to their site:
Categories can be used independently (to list articles from all sections in the National category, for example), or combined with sections (to list articles in section Politics with category World).
Sections are usually the topmost navigation elements of your web site. If you want a simple, automatic list of links to sections, use the section_list tag:
<txp:section_list wraptag="ul" break="li" />
This puts the links in an unordered list, so you can use CSS to alter the layout as required.
For a popup selection list, use the popup tag:
<txp:popup type="s" />
If you want more control over the content of the list (to omit certain sections, or use a specific order), the best way is with the <txp:section /> tag (requires Textpattern 4.0.2+):
<ul>
<txp:section wraptag="li" link=1 title=1 name="about" />
<txp:section wraptag="li" link=1 title=1 name="articles" />
<txp:section wraptag="li" link=1 title=1 name="news" />
<txp:section wraptag="li" link=1 title=1 name="contact" />
</ul>
If you’ve created static pages, like an about or contact page, you can link to them by linking to the associated section:
<txp:section link=1 title=1 name="about" />
<txp:section link=1 title=1 name="contact" />
Category links are specified in a similar way. There’s a category_list tag:
<txp:category_list wraptag="ul" break="li" />
The popup tag can also be used for categories:
<txp:popup type="c" />
Please note however that categories are independent of sections. Both of these tags will link to a list of articles in all sections that belong to the selected category.
For more control, you can use the category tag (also requires Textpattern 4.0.2+):
<ul>
<txp:category wraptag="li" link=1 title=1 name="products" />
<txp:category wraptag="li" link=1 title=1 name="weather" />
<txp:category wraptag="li" link=1 title=1 name="photos" />
</ul>