Managing News Items

**mechaflash** · 01/31/2011, 23:25

I have a bit of a predicament. For a new website I'm building, it is required that news be split into multiple categories. We want to be able to have a menu of links of these categories where it will populate a news list of these specific news items only off of a single Main Category news archive. I tried looking on the extensions repository for any add-ons for the news module but didn't find any =( wishful thinking lol.

This is what I've attempted so far.

created a simple link list:

Code:

 <ul class="hot_policy_issues">
    <li class="corporate_issues_link">Corporate Issues
    <ul>
      <li class="data_breaches_link">Data Breaches
      <li class="data_security_link">Data Security
      <li class="data_sharing_link">Data Sharing[/list][/list]

Going off of the 4 links I have created, I have 1 main category and 3 sub-categories;
main category: Corporate Issues;
sub-categories: Data Breaches, Data Security, Data Sharing
Created the News Archive for Corporate Issues
I've created double classes for these news items as "corporate_issues data_breaches", "corporate_issues data_security" etc.
Now when I click on the Data Breaches link, I want the news list to populate ONLY the news items with class data_breaches and leave everything else out of the list.
I've tried to:

Code:

//* Hide all news items *//
.newslist .corporate_issues *{
display: none
}
//* Show Only Data Breaches News Items *//
.menu .data_breaches_link a:active .newslist .data_breaches{
display:block
}

Without any luck =/. Is there a simpler way of doing what I'm doing or is it improbable?

**MacKP** · 02/01/2011, 11:03

Hi mechaflasch,
for something like that you can use the tags extension (news tags). There you habe a tag cloud and when you click on one tag only news with this tag are listed. The tag cloud can look like a normal navigation with css.

regards