Blog category navigation

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Hi all,

this may be obvious, but I don’t seem to be able to nail it.

Is it possible to have a side navigation of categories on the blog ‘landing’ page?

And when a client ads a new category from a post, the side nav is auto-updated, similar to how WordPress works (just to give a reference).

Thanks a lot

G

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Hello @AGH

Absolutely! You need to create a CMS collection called categories. In the Blog page you need to design a sidebar that contains a collection list element. Next you need to connect the collection list element to the CMS categories collection. If there is a new category in the CMS collection it will be automatically added to the Blog categories sidebar.

Hope this helps.

If you need help feel free to text me.

Piter :webflow_heart:

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A big cheers @PeterDimitrov!

Straight to the point, thanks pal!

G

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The structure in general:

blog page

(home > blog)page:

  • Page list of all posts (without any filtering).
    & sidebar collection list for categories (Usefull to convert this to symbol).
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    Link setting:
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collection pages

Two collections (posts & blog-category) & collection pages:

  • A.(home > posts > my-post)
  • B.(home > /blog-category/news)

For B page:

  1. Add posts collection list
  2. Add filter “current blog category”:
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Done.

Tutorials:

Important:

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very cool @Siton_Systems , thanks a lot for all of that!

Cheers :grin:

G

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@PeterDimitrov @Siton_Systems I a trying to figure out what you have done here. Is there a video anywhere walking through these steps. I am not understanding how the linking to the category pages works.

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Hey @Benjamin_Bachman

Not a video…Maybe tomorrow I can send a video back to you. It’s late here and I’m going to bed.

Piter :webflow_heart:

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@PeterDimitrov thank you!