This article shall give you some Tipps&Tricks to easy adapt the FluxCMS Blog to client wishes.

hide a categorie in the blog menu

go to /themes/your_template/blog.xsl

• there it reads as follows:

      <!-- 
      
      if you want to change some of the blog xsl-templates, look at
      themes/standard/plugins/blog.xsl, copy those you want to change into this file
      and change them.
      
      This will overwrite the standard templates.
      
      We do not advise to change stuff in themes/standard/, but to overwrite/extend them 
      here, as this will make future upgrades much easier. 
      
      -->
  

  that's exactly what we want to do, to hide a categorie in the blog menu. we have to overwrite the template <xsl:template match="items/collection| plugin/collection">. there we simply add an condition at the end of the variable tag like it's done in the example below (and title!='Stellenangebote' or and title!='All'):

  <xsl:template match="items/collection| plugin/collection"> <xsl:variable name="items" select="items/*[(not(@lang) or @lang=$lang) and (not(filename) or filename!='index') and display-order > 0 and title!='Stellenangebote' and title!='All']"/> <xsl:if test="$items"> <ul> <xsl:call-template name="doCollection"> <xsl:with-param name="items" select="$items"/> </xsl:call-template> </ul> </xsl:if> </xsl:template>

filter the root categorie

All blog-posts are automatically added to the root-category (also when you untick the case in edit-modus). If you want to hide a categorie in the blog menu you normally also want to hide the blog-posts of this categorie in the root-category.

To hide your categorie you go again in /themes/your_template/blog.xsl. There you add/change the template <xsl:template name="blogOverview">. Simply add a condition at the end of the if-test ([@id != 'cat233']). to know your categorie number go in the edit-modus of your blog categories. by getting over a categorie with your mouse you see the link in your browser footer.

link /blog to a categorie

When I want to link the /blog with my categorie "Foo" i have to change the blog properties. Under bx::redirect add Foo/index.html.

show a blog categorie outside of the blog

• make a new collection
• change your variables <variable name="blogid" value="1"/> and <variable name="blogxsl" value="blog-jobs.xsl"/> in the .configxml
• make your new xsl (blog-jobs.xsl)
• adapt your filter for the root categorie (see above) in for example:
  <xsl:if test="xhtml:div[@class='post_meta_data']/xhtml:span[@class='post_categories']/xhtml:span[@id = 'cat233']">