Dolphin 7, Blogs, filtering, and main site navigation

Hello,

     Lets say that I have 1000 members, and they are all bloggers and I want to focus the direction of the blogs by setting categories for the blogs.  (Just accept this for now, I am just setting an example even though it is not the best reason)

Meaning, lets say I have 3 categories Football, Baseball, and Fishing.

I would add these 3 categories to my categories module

how would I add a top level navigation entry called football that would show all public. or blogs that my account has access based on a single click on my main nav?

I would want to do this for all 3 groupings.

Thanks,

Cory

you mean something like this? http://globaldancenetwork.com/page/Ballet

It will probably require custom work somewhere along the line. I made this page, made a nav tab for it and then used custom coding applied to articles and tutorials to pull the ballet content onto the page.

You would need to make a fishing page and probably pay someone to code what you need to pull the information onto the page somehow,... I guess it depends on what you want on the page...

Dolphin isnt designed to be friendly for static pages. Active content is only realy used within the social network parts of dolphin and not any extra static pages that you add...... I think this is a flaw wiith dolphin as a CMS... but hey... who am I lol.....

NAthan

Hummm, well another solution would be to install 3 different blog modules one for each area.  Then I could limit them...   None of the solutions I am coming up with seem to be sound as of yet.  I am not really looking to have stats, but more of a Top level navigation that is displaying user based content filtering blogs for the category that it falls under.

Cory

I removed blogs from my site - its too much of a temptation for spammers of a cirtain nationality lol....

From experience on dolphin... If I cant find a solution that works the way i need it to... or more importantly the way my users need it to, then I have it custom coded. That way you get exacly what you want. I have messed around with various mods in the past trying to get them do do what I wanted, but wasted a lot of time and money doing so....

Custom develpment wins every time on my book : )

Update on my status with this design / need....

Well, it turns out that adding a top level page is not as hard as I made it the first time.  

I am now using the Add page block method and I am happy with that.

I also think that you are correct that I am going to need to go the path of custom code...  I am going to see if I can pull the built in blogs into each new page block via html with filtering set.  I do not have high hopes yet though.

Cory