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Categorize Content Using Tags / Add Category Sub-tabs: Blogs, Forums, Photos, and Videos.

How To Add Special Category Sub-tabs (links) for Blogs, Forums, Photos, Videos

You can make it much easier for your members to find content, by adding good tags to your content. For these links to work nicely, be sure to spend a little time adding consistent tags to your:
blogs, forums, photos, and videos. It works for text within the content, as well. But, to add good tags to content, will produce the best results.

It's also a good idea to encourage your members to add consistent tags to their content (blogs, forums, all discussions, photos, and videos). For example, let's say you have a sport site. You could make a list of tags for your members, and encourage them to tag their content appropriately. For sports you might add a tag list like this: baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, soccer, etc...

With a Sport's site as our example, let's talk about the links you'll need to add to your new sub-tabs.

Blogs:
/profiles/blog/list?q=golf

Forum Discussions:
/forum/topic/search?q=hockey

Photos:
/photo/photo/search?q=soccer

Videos:
/video/video/search?q=baseball

Add Your Sub-tabs:
After you have decided what tags you would like to use, start creating your sub-tabs. It's best to use the same Sub-tab Title, as the actual search tag.

Using our example search strings above for Blogs and Videos:

Add a Sub-Tab Under Blogs.

Go to Manage/Tab Manager.
In upper left, Click on Add New Tab.
In right column next to: Tab Name - - change "New Tab" to Golf.
Check the box next to: Make this a sub-tab.
Click radio button for Use Existing URL: and add: /profiles/blog/list?q=golf
Select your choice of: Make Tab Visible To
In left column, click and drag your new sub-tab under Blogs.
Click on Save Tab Settings.

Add a Sub-Tab Under Videos.

Go to Manage/Tab Manager.
In upper left, Click on Add New Tab.
In right column next to: Tab Name - - change "New Tab" to Baseball.
Check the box next to: Make this a sub-tab.
Click radio button for Use Existing URL: and add: /video/video/search?q=baseball
Select your choice of: Make Tab Visible To
In left column, click and drag your new sub-tab under Videos.
Click on Save Tab Settings.

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Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Magic Happens on March 3, 2010 at 3:29pm

Thanks for helping

Permalink Reply by Cerebral Collective on July 24, 2010 at 4:53pm

I really love this and want to use it. I really get frustrated that we cannot categorize our content easily and this seems like the best alternative I've seen thus far. I only hope I can get my members to tag properly. Yesterday I went around and added tags to about 20 articles. I'd rather not have to do that.

Permalink Reply by Magic Happens on July 24, 2010 at 6:49pm

l like your blogs/media tab. and sub tags. l like all of them.

Permalink Reply by Claudio Acosta on June 3, 2014 at 4:15pm