Categories not showing

[Zirbelholz]

I've seen other messages relating to this, I've seen a reference to serendipity_entrycat (or something like that), but can't find out which directory it's in.

At http://transblawg.eu I have assigned multiple categories (only recent entries). When I click in the sidebar, nothing shows up under Fürth and under photos I get only a photo that had only one category.

Obviously I am not getting multiple entries to show. (They do if I click directly under the entry, not in the sidebar). But I can't find out where to change anything. I looked at the User Documentation and it refers to

>>Under the "Categories Menu" in the Authoring Suite you will find the link "Manage Categories". <<

I can't find this 'Manage Categories' anywhere. I presume I am in this Authoring Suite, or is that just something for developers?

Margaret

[Don Chambers]

Margaret - I think you are confusing "categories" with "tags". s9y includes a sidebar plugin for categories.... but an entry can only be assigned to a single category. To create/manage categories, go to the admin/backend and under the menu block titled "entries", simply click on "categories".

There is also a plugin called "tagging of entries", which you seem to be using. It is a single download, but you need to install it as both an event plugin and a sidebar plugin. Then you will have a sidebar item listing your tags.

You seem to have created 2 categories, and 2 tags using identical names. You have only assigned a single entry to the category "photos" and no entries use the category "fürth". By comparison, you have tagged 7 entries as with the tag "photos" and 5 entries with the tag "fürth".

Many people use both categories and tags... sometimes they are identical, sometimes not. Both categories and tags have their respective advantages.

[Zirbelholz]

I see. I know that some blogs have multiple categories and didn't realize that S9y had only one. I got the impression there are main categories and subcategories, so I couldn't imagine only one would be allowed. I thought what I was doing was adding categories, and that I might use a tag cloud later.

It is not much use to me if an entry can have only one category. So maybe I should just dump the categories and use tags? (I don't really feel the need to offer category feeds, particularly if I can't catch everything in the category because of overlapping).

Thanks for the explanation.

Margaret

[carl_galloway]

There is a plugin that allows entries to be assigned to multiple categories, it's in the event categories list and its called 'category assignment'. It should be what you're looking for.

[Zirbelholz]

I've got that plugin already - that's why I said I am getting no results on multiple categories (I accidentally wrote 'multiple entries'). But presumably I haven't correctly identified the plugin. I actually thought I was using it, hence my question. I will have a look.

Margaret

[Don Chambers]

Categories can have "subcategories" as well. For instance, you could have a parent category "photos", and subcategories like "wildlife", "architecture", and "portraits".

[Zirbelholz]

Now I see what it is - I didn't understand how the plugin worked. I have to click on a + sign to get the second category. I thought I had to enter my categories as tags below.

Thanks.

Margaret