Recommended Approach for Filtering Blog Categories
Hi, what would be the recommended approach for filtering the blog categories on this component? Would using the category page template? https://www.relume.io/components/blog-1
Hi, what would be the recommended approach for filtering the blog categories on this component? Would using the category page template? https://www.relume.io/components/blog-1
Susan M. Hi Susan! Long time no see! Yeah there are two approaches to this. One is super simple, and one is a bit more complex. But if my memory serves me right, you are pretty experienced so its really up to the effort/time you have available to pull it off. Approach 1 - You'll have a "category" collection in the CMS and just render those category items to make this menu and link to the category CMS template and then display blog posts that are filtered to that specific category. You'll reference your category collection inside your blog posts. Approach 2 - Using Finsweet Attributes List Filters so that the items filter in real-time, instantly on screen.
Filtration by (https://finsweet.com/attributes/list-filter)
Hi Malka, In addition to Matt J. guidance. Plan to work with the category's CMS template page. What to do is copy and paste the same page/components as the main listing page to the template page but filter the items to current category on the CMS template, You can use multi select fields if an item will have more than one category. The linking happens with the category navigation, it's a collection list of the category items and when clicked, it can be programed to go to the current category-template page you clicked on. This project I did just that: https://www.faainc.com/projects
Susan M. technically you could probably get away with doing both actually - just don't link the filter buttons up - and then you'll at least have the pages for SEO. Malka G. here's a loom on option 1 - https://relume.notion.site/How-to-connect-Blog-Header-Sections-to-CMS-c17444582be34de395f81513643abbec?source=copy_link
Susan M. can't speak to best practices and maybe my thinking here is off but lets say that you hook up those blog categories to the finsweet filters, but then you still build out the category collection and the category CMS template - so the pages still exist, and maybe they are linked to from some other source - but they'll for sure be indexed and discoverable by crawlers - then you essentially have the best of both worlds - the user gets to filter the blog posts instantly with filters, but the crawlers still have an indexed page to crawl for specific categories.
brilliant! I see what you are saying. Do both. I'll think on that!
