Blog App Tag Links

Hi Rachel,

Thanks, but I don't think that's quite what I'm looking for. In my blog templates I've adjusted the "post_in_list.html" to my liking, but I'd like the tag category title to also be a link to the tag category listing automatically. What I'm looking for is the automated link association. I'll show you my code. I put in code brackets what I'm trying to adjust.

<li class="hentry">
        <a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />" rel="bookmark" class="entry-title"><perch:if exists="image"><img src="<perch:blog id="image" type="image" />" alt="<perch:blog id="postTitle" />" /></a></perch:if>
        <span><perch:blog id="postTags" type="text" /></span> <!-- I want this post tag to be linked to the tag category. Is there a template tag for this? -->
        <h2><a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />" rel="bookmark" class="entry-title"><perch:blog id="postTitle" /></a></h2>
        <div class="description entry-summary">
        <perch:blog id="excerpt" type="textarea" textile="true" />
        </div>
    </li>

I hope this makes sense.

Hi Greg,

I think your template code would need something like this to list out the tags:

<perch:before><ul></perch:before>
    <li><a href="archive.php?tag=<perch:blog id="tagSlug" />" rel="tag"><perch:blog id="tagTitle" /></a></li>
<perch:after></ul></perch:after>

This should (as an example) direct the query to an archive page using the slug for the tag.

If you check the "archive.php" within the blog download files, the code to display a list of posts by tag looks like this:

/* --------------------------- POSTS BY TAG --------------------------- */
if (perch_get('tag')) {
    echo '<h1>Archive of: '.perch_blog_tag(perch_get('tag'), true).'</h1>';

    perch_blog_custom(array(
    'tag'        => perch_get('tag'),
    'template'   => $template,
    'count'      => $posts_per_page,
    'sort'       => $sort_by,
    'sort-order' => $sort_order,
            ));

    $posts_displayed = true;
}

You could alternatively create a "tags.php" page to use rather than "archive.php" and loose the IF statement, etc…

Thank you for your reply. This looks like what I need. I'll give it a try! Thanks!

I'm not getting anywhere. When I click on the tag, it takes me to the full archive of posts rather than the filtered tag. This is what I have.

<span>
         <a href="archive.php?tag=<perch:blog id="tagSlug" />" rel="tag">
                <perch:blog id="postTags" type="text" />
         </a>
  </span> 

I'm looking to get the tag link from the post tag title it's pulling.

No it doesn't. It ends like this: mysite.com/archive.php?tag=

Not sure what to check for in the template, that's my problem. Here's my code for the post_in_list.html. Thanks.

<perch:before>
<ul class="hfeed listing"></perch:before>
    <li class="hentry">
        <a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />" rel="bookmark" class="entry-title">
            <perch:if exists="image"><img src="<perch:blog id="image" type="image" />" alt="<perch:blog id="postTitle" />" />
        </a></perch:if>


<!--THIS IS WHERE MY PROBLEM IS-->
        <span>
            <a href="archive.php?tag=<perch:blog id="tagSlug" />" rel="tag">
                <perch:blog id="postTags" type="text" />
            </a>
        </span> 

<!--END PROBLEM-->



        <h2>
            <a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" />" rel="bookmark" class="entry-title">
                <perch:blog id="postTitle" />
            </a>
        </h2>

        <!--<p class="entry-published date"><perch:blog id="postDateTime" format="%d %B %Y" /></p>-->
        <div class="description entry-summary">
        <perch:blog id="excerpt" type="textarea" textile="true" />
        <!--<p>Comments: <perch:blog id="postCommentCount"/></p>-->
        </div>
    </li>
<perch:after>
    </ul>
    <perch:if exists="paging">
        <div class="paging">
            Page <perch:blog id="current_page" /> of <perch:blog id="number_of_pages" />
            <perch:blog id="page_links" encode="false" />
            <perch:if exists="not_first_page">
                <a href="<perch:blog id="prev_url" encode="false" />">Previous</a>
            </perch:if>
            <perch:if exists="not_last_page">
                <a href="<perch:blog id="next_url" encode="false" />">Next</a>
            </perch:if>
        </div>
    </perch:if>
</perch:after>

Thanks Drew. Would I add the php code to the archive.php or as a new php file?