A Consuming Experience : How to include categories for your blog (manual, e...

Maeven, I've just posted a howto. Hope that helps....

2007-05-02T21:46:00.000+01:00

Maeven, I've just posted a howto. Hope that helps.

I have scoured the internet looking for a way do t...

2007-04-24T05:32:00.000+01:00

I have scoured the internet looking for a way do this (see sidebar, "Ingredient" heading with the line beneath it, click to expand/contract).

I finally happened upon your page, and while I love this hack and want to use it for expanding/collapsing the contents of sidebar headings, I'm having one heck of a time trying to put it into New Blogger and their widget system.

For example, on this blog, on both of the sidebars I want only the headings to show with the [+/-] that, once clicked, would expose (on the left sidebar) what's under "Labels", "Blog Archive" (and do the same thing with the headings on the right sidebar).

I have placed your coding between the "head""#topofpage" tags, and prepared the rest of your instructions (I tried to include it here to show to you, but I've gotten the error here that "Your HTML cannot be accepted: reference 'javascript:' is not allowed, etc." when trying to include it in this comment when I post it), but with widgetry, how/where should I insert it?

Please, if you have any suggestions, I would be greatly indebted.

(ravin') Maeven

Thanks Priit. Yes manual updating of the list is a...

2007-04-09T16:21:00.000+01:00

Thanks Priit. Yes manual updating of the list is a real pain, though having the content hardcoded in seems incidentally to help from an SEO viewpoint. I'll probably stop doing that soon.

New Blogger does have Recent Posts as standard (as did Old Blogger) and a Recent Comments feed which you can display in the sidebar as text (see this for instance), as well as labels (categories). So to be fair to Blogger, I think they're finally starting to catch up with WordPress.

Your method is ingenious - with respect to the tec...

2007-04-08T23:02:00.000+01:00

Your method is ingenious - with respect to the technological constraints of the New Blogger - but it translates into manual indexing of your blog - in XML. That's not an inviting proposition. Why the hell won't the Blogger offer decent widgets like RECENT POSTS, RECENT COMMENTS, CATEGORIES? WordPress obviously does. Of course, Blogger is free, and you get what you pay for.

JJ, sorry I must have completely missed your respo...

2007-03-20T08:45:00.000Z

JJ, sorry I must have completely missed your response at the time. Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to keep the menu expanded when the user clicks through, as far as I know - not unless you had it expanded on all pages.

Kunika - please post more info about what you did exactly, otherwise it'll hard to figure out what went wrong. I've had a look at your blog and it seems to be working fine. Have you sorted it out since, it seems?

Hi ....I tried to put categories through this meth...

2007-03-01T19:31:00.000Z

Hi ....I tried to put categories through this method but the links are not working when the page gets loaded fully & also if i right click & open link in new tab it works .......can you please help

Not sure when you tried the Roughstock link, but I...

2007-01-03T20:39:00.000Z

Not sure when you tried the Roughstock link, but I've been working on it for a while—it's where it should be now.

To clarify:

The menus work as they should (e.g. user clicks on "About Roughstock" and they get an expanded list of links). But once they click one of the expanded links, the menu reloads collapsed (it doesn't stay expanded on the following page when the user clicks through). Basically, every time a page is loaded, the menu loads already collapsed. Is there a way to keep the menu expanded when the user clicks through a (previously hidden) link?

Does that make more sense? Sorry if I'm being unclear.

Thanks,
JJ

Thanks for your comment Jessie Jane and I'm glad y...

2007-01-03T14:36:00.000Z

Thanks for your comment Jessie Jane and I'm glad you found it helpful.

Could you clarify your question? I tried that Roughstock link you gave, but the menu doesn't stay expanded on load. And with the code I've given, the menu is automatically collapsed on the link page anyway, try my "Posts from this blog on" section in my sidebar e.g. any post under Life and Health. When the post loads, the same menu is collapsed.

This is brilliant—thanks for putting this together...

2007-01-03T02:08:00.000Z

This is brilliant—thanks for putting this together and sharing it.

I'm still working on fully implementing this on one of my blogs, but I already have a question: once the menu is expanded and the user clicks one of the expanded links, the menu automatically loads collapsed on the linked page. Is there any way to code it so that it stays expanded on load? That is, can you selectively choose which pages load it collapsed and which pages load it expanded? I'm thinking not, but hoping I'm wrong.

(You can see what I mean at Roughstock News: click "About Roughstock" and choose one of the links...you'll see the menu automatically loads collapsed on the next page that loads.)

Thanks again!
—JJ

Ta C0ldEnd. Not sure exactly what you mean though ...

2006-08-03T20:52:00.000+01:00

Ta C0ldEnd. Not sure exactly what you mean though about using this to run a script? To show/hide a cocomment box, you can use exactly the same script as above. Instead of "[+/-] CategoryTitle1" just insert e.g. "[+/-] Show/Hide CoComment Box" and instead of

<ul class="texthidden" id="UNIQUENAME1">
<li><a href="Permalink1">Post1Name</a></li>
<li><a href="Permalink2">Post2Name</a></li>
</ul>

just use something like

<div class="texthidden" id="UNIQUENAME1">
Cocomment stuff here
</div>

Hope that helps.

Great work dude! I want to use this script to run ...

2006-07-14T11:01:00.000+01:00

Great work dude! I want to use this script to run another script.. So that when I click on a link, whatever is generated by my script is shown.. And when I click the link again It will vanish.. How do I achieve this result.

Actually I want to show/hide the ccomments.com comment box...

Cheers!

Mallikarjun, thanks for your comment, I'll take a ...

2006-07-08T17:24:00.000+01:00

Mallikarjun, thanks for your comment, I'll take a look though it may not be for a while as I'm snowed under at the mo.

Ben, thanks for your comment, it's always nice to get feedback like yours - glad to have been of help.

thank you very much for the excellent idea, and th...

2006-06-30T05:23:00.000+01:00

thank you very much for the excellent idea, and the extremely clear directions on how to incorporate categories. it's a great addition to my blogs, and I thank you for your generosity of time and effort. Ben D.

This is pretty cool. Why dont you look at the pret...

2006-06-22T14:17:00.000+01:00

This is pretty cool. Why dont you look at the pretty small code written at http://categories.blogspot.com/2006/05/blogger-categories-in-one-line-of.html

It uses a method of using the links. I got it in my blog but when I changed it to three column template it was all gone.

It would be great if you can combine your technique and this. This way each time you dont have to post the URL under a category, the key words would do.

Thanks

Thanks for your comment qureyoon. Will add a tutor...

2006-05-30T23:46:00.000+01:00

Thanks for your comment qureyoon. Will add a tutorial on the archive to my Todo list!

nice tutorial here ;)and could you make another on...

2006-05-30T05:40:00.000+01:00

nice tutorial here ;)

and could you make another one, on how when you click to select one of the archives, then the title of each post appears in the middle, and how can you get the title of the archive ? ex. May 2006 or Apr 2005 etc.

thx

Glad it worked, anon, thanks for your comment. As ...

2006-05-29T22:11:00.000+01:00

Glad it worked, anon, thanks for your comment. As you say, this technique can be used to produce show/hide sections for anything, not just category listings but stuff within the body of a post or webpage too.

I used this to format a questionnaire and it works...

2006-05-25T02:34:00.000+01:00

I used this to format a questionnaire and it works great!!! I looked forever and this is the only code that I could figure out how to use. Thanks so much!!

I have another idea for categories on blogger.(is ...

2006-05-04T10:01:00.000+01:00

I have another idea for categories on blogger.(is by making archives. Look at my blog: Stupid Stuff, you will understand) The only drawback I care is this: the posts on the manin page are not categorised and when I categorise them I have to change their date, with this I lose some links. I think this can be solved with some javascript that can let me choose which posts to apear on the main page.Anyone who know how to do that please email me.

This is my blog: http://stupid-ideas.blogspot.com/
and this my email: ionut.ro at gmail.com

P.S. excuse my english, is not my first language

Thanks for your comment, Kayla, glad the hack was ...

2006-03-01T10:00:00.000Z

Thanks for your comment, Kayla, glad the hack was of help.

Thank you for this hack, it is just what I wanted ...

2006-02-28T21:50:00.000Z

Thank you for this hack, it is just what I wanted for my Poetry Website! I couldn't have come up with it on my own.

Thanks for the comments, shinjian and slipstream. ...

2006-02-26T10:09:00.000Z

Thanks for the comments, shinjian and slipstream. Glad it works for you! (link to your blog didn't quite work though, shinjian, so I fixed it. :))

i knew the blogs were configurable with this, but ...

2006-02-24T03:16:00.000Z

i knew the blogs were configurable with this, but i know some html but i mainly know C,
i can't thank you enough for this excellent page Imrobulus
thankyou

Thanks. my blog is in chinese. it still works beau...

2006-02-19T11:15:00.000Z

Thanks. my blog is in chinese. it still works beautifully.
see here.

Thanks Amit. Interesting, but could you give more ...

2006-02-17T16:43:00.000Z

Thanks Amit. Interesting, but could you give more info on how it all works please?