So, I work at a web development agency and we recently decided to give our custom CMS up and start developing with Drupal. Currently, I am developing a wholesale product website. What I need to do is to create some product catalogs without using commerce since we do not need the purchase, checkout and payment features and I thought that using the built-in Content, Taxonomy and Views features we can get our job done.
I have created the product categories in Taxonomy. The main (root) categories are main Taxonomy objects and the subcategories are terms.
I created a custom Content type called: products. In this type I have the following form fields: Product Code, Name, Image, Description and a list field to choose the Terms I would like the product to be displayed in.
I would appreciate some help in order to set the whole structure up as I am still heavily influenced by the custom CMS we used to work on that had similar content management with Joomla!
In conclusion, I would like to:
Set a sidebar menu up that contains the categories and the subcategories as a tree. I would also like the menu to be updated if any changes occur in the taxonomy (e.g I add a term in taxonomy and it shows up on the menu).
Set the structure so that when someone clicks on a category that does NOT contain products but subcategories, gets the list of the categories bellow the active one.
I am really looking forward to your answers and I'd like to thank you in advance.
You could give a try to a combination of Taxonomy Menu and Menu Block modules. Taxonomy Menu allows you to easily generate menus from taxonomy vocabularies, and Menu Block creates menus and "menus portion", for instance, from level 2 to 3 from a specific point.
So basically, you can create menus from taxonomy and then create submenus from those menus with Menu Block. It can be tricky but you can do a lot of things with these modules.
Good luck
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Please help me to add taxonomy terms from custom taxonomy into home page. I have no idea how to do this as I'm coming from WordPress. In WordPress it is easy as calling get_terms(). I have following file as my home page: mytheme/templates/page--front.html.twig
I have more than one taxonomy type and all of them are going to queried in the home page.
How to query the taxonomy terms?
UPDATE:
I have created a new region called home_content in my theme.info.yml and I have created a view(block) for getting the taxonomy terms, added it to region in back-end and display it as {{page.home_content}}. It works but I have few questions.
I have fields for logo and text in the taxonomy. I want to list them too.
I need to customize the html. How can I do that?
Thanks for the support.
You don't really need to code anything
Create view with taxonomy terms required. Structure > Views > Create New View and add block view for taxonomy terms. User filter section to select specific terms or dictionaries. Save the view.
Go to Structure > Block Layout and insert block with your view into desired region. In visibility section, pages tab: type <front> in pages and select Show for the listed pages in order to display it on home page only.
Above steps will display your required terms on home page.
To copy and modify template(s) in your theme, follow the instructions on drupal.org: https://www.drupal.org/node/2358785
For a new project i like to have a single of my custom post type 'teams' as a parent of a custom post type archive and singles 'report' so i would like to have "Teams/{team-name}/reports/{report}".
I've tried to create a custom slug with the 'save_post' action/hook but it didn't work. On the editor page of a report i do have a custom field to select a team but ik look likes this is not usable on the save_post function yet. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Based on what you've indicated in the comments above, I'd be inclined to do away with the http://{website}/Teams/{team-name}/reports/{report} pretty URL and have a more simple http://{website}/Teams/{team-name} URL. It will be more intuitive to remember for visitors.
In the single for the Team CPT, you would include a loop for the archive type associated with the particular team. You COULD create a hierarchy of CPT where Reports are a child of Team but you will be heading down a slippery road that the parent/child relationship creates a lot of overhang when the types become populated.
There are a lot of threads about this, this is just one guys report on what happens when there are many hierarchical CPTs: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hierarchical-post-type-w-heavy-data-set-fails-lots-of-custom-fields?replies=1
If you could create them as individual (non related) CPTs, and have a common category or taxonomy you could then in the single.php of your CPT include a loop for the archive, or alternatively in the archive for the reports, you could include a team header section. You could link the two on that taxonomy.
On a slightly different tact, if it is just some basic info you want to have about the team on the archive page, you could include a description in the reports taxonomy and depending on your theme (or custom coding) you could display that at the top of the reports archive.
I am really working hard to get a specific Post view in my Wordpress blog.
Example
Click http://theunlockr.com/roms/
Then Click http://theunlockr.com/roms/android-roms/
Then CLick http://theunlockr.com/roms/android-roms/asus-roms/
I figured that this is a nested view of categories and subcategories and finally the post in the respective category.
Need some input on how to do this on a basic wordpress blog.
I have already tried page builder and Grid views and alot of plugins, but cant really make this kind of view.
This is done via custom post types and custom taxonomies.
For example, you could create a custom post type rom, and assign the custom taxonomy roms with child categories Android ROMs -> Asus ROMs. This child category is assigned to the custom post type.
I have a Wordpress-blog with gift ideas where I write text based articles. I recently discovered Custom Post types which I believe is the solution to an feature I want to create.
What I want:
Be able to tag each custom post using the normal "Categories" and "Tags".
Create a 3x3 matrix with product images (custom posts) to be shown on top of each Category-view or Tag-view (followed by the typical article list in the category or tag).
Example:
Lets say I have a category "Gifts for mom" and tags "Pink", "Cheap"
In the category "Gifts for mom" I have 10 text articles (normal posts) discussing the difficulties of buying gifts for your mom
I create nine custom posts, each is a specific gift (e.g. A pink hairbrush). I want to place them in the Category "Gifts for mom" and tag them with "Pink".
When I view myrandomgiftblogname.com/category/gifts-for-mom I want to be able to get a view:
Gifts for mom
Product Product Product
Product Product Product
Product Product Product
Articles:
- This awesome article
- That awesome article
- Etc
I assume this is possible but don't really know where to begin. Could you point me in the right direction? Which Plugins do I need? Do I need to do any programming myself (or just plugin configuration)? Is this even possible?
The description is a bit broad, hence a bit broad answer.
Two things are needed:
1) A plugin to create the Custom Post Type.
It is considered best practice to let CPT's in Plugin territory. So you can swap designs and preserve your CPT functionality. In reality, you are asking for future problems letting this be handled by the theme.
Create your own plugin, which would contain a register_post_type and any extra configs.
Use an existent plugin, like Custom Content Type Manager.
Its Custom Fields features are quite handy as well.
Allows users to create custom content types (also known as post types) and standardized custom fields for each, including dropdowns, checkboxes, and images.
2) Learn how to use and customize WordPress Templates
http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates
Templates are the files which control how your WordPress site will be displayed on the Web. These files draw information from your WordPress MySQL database and generate the HTML code which is sent to the web browser. Through its powerful Theme system, WordPress allows you to define as few or as many Templates as you like all under one Theme. Each of these Template files can be configured for use under specific situations.
You can try the following:
Add a new Page for each category with the exact same name as the category.
In the Images menu attach to each of those pages the images you want.
In your script query for a page with a name identical to the current category, and pull all of its attachments
I have imported 5.000 to my drupal-commerce website.I want the user to be able to navigate fast on all of these products,so I just figured out that I need to make somehow a filter or a search that when the user chooses/selects some of the features of the product the result will be only the products with these features.How can I manage to do this on Drupal 7 and Drupal Commerce(Commerce kickstart?)
The short answer is that you'll probably want to use the Views module. You can create a Views page display for your main products page that loads the Commerce product displays. Since the product displays don't actually contain the field values that you'd want to filter (they're on the referenced products), you'll need to add a Relationship to the products. That'll let you add filter criteria for product fields (exposing them will make them visible to the user). If you want the exposed filters to appear in a sidebar, use the "Exposed form in block" option on the Views display to create a filter block that you can add to your sidebar region on Administration » Structure » Blocks (/admin/structure/block).
Most people who have used Views over the years are used to outputting the Views result using Fields and then customizing the display of the fields with template files or extensive configuration, etc. However, you can create a custom view mode for your product display content types and give them layout with Display Suite. You can output those custom displays in Views using the Content Format.