I have played with the MicroBlog project, which does show “Tags” in the .md files. However, there is nothing in the file that helps me to know how to actually display the Tags of each blog file. All I get is “ARRAY”. I reviewed the videos of last year on the CMS, but the components in the video are very different than the ones in the recent Elements update.
Does anyone have a sample file of how the Tags function works, so that multiple tags will show when the blog file is displayed? And then of course, what happens when the tag is clicked on. From the forum, the Category “tag” is not functional I understand. The Help files don’t really address how to use Tags that I can see.
As far as I know from an earlier post about the same problem tags don’t work the way they should. It is one of the many problems you counter when you try to use the CMS for blogging. And @dan and @ben seem to have other priorities for Elements at the moment than helping us bloggers to make Elements a good blogging platform. It is very frustrating, I must say. Maybe it’s time that the Elements team shares a road map for developing with us? That may help to remain hopeful.
In my discussion with them, I don’t believe they are planning to implement categories, but tags are active and work well. I used them on my website www.christ2rculture.com
Here is the same blog filtered by a tag based on which series image is clicked. Check the URL after you click the image to see the format - Christ 2R Culture - Sermons By Series
I used tags & categories with Alloy and Poster2 very effectively. @PouwelW , you are correct. Tags don’t work the same in Elements. There is no real documentation nor project samples that show how they work.
If I try to display the tags associated with the blog post, all I get is “ARRAY” using this {{items.tags}}. Maybe we are supposed to use the component “Related Items”, but again documentation is sketchy on how to use this. It would be nice if we had a good project file that actually shows how the tagging works. I could get by without Categories, but Tags are an important part of blogging.
Yep…that is the part where there is no documentation of how to use it. Reviewing the CMS videos from last year, all the components were different as well, so they are not useful. It’s too bad that the microblog project didn’t include how to utilize tags as well.
When you added a tag at the end of your URL, did you mean adding an anchor to the URL? I still need to review filtering on a page. Nice site BTW.
I like the way that your “cards” including the image, date, title and excerpt are in one container. I have only been able to have the title be the clickable element that opens up the specific blog page.
The “You may also like” section on the right has other blog links. Did you use the Related component for that? or are they manually placed links?
Unfortunately, it hasn’t made it out of beta status yet. My guess is that at the time it was probably still too buggy, which is why it was never officially released.
I really hope we’ll soon see a similar level of development for the Elements CMS as we did with Elements 2.0 .
In its current state, the CMS unfortunately feels a bit like neither one thing nor the other. Yes, you can use it productively—and I do—but you still run into situations where things don’t work as smoothly as they should.
Even though it’s absolutely not an option for me, I sometimes look at TCMS3 with a bit of nostalgia and find myself wondering what it would be like if… ^^
Coming back to Elements CMS 2.0: it doesn’t need to have the huge feature set of TCMS3. Even 50% of that would be more than enough. What’s far more important would be fixing the existing bugs and adding a few useful features like search or next/previous post navigation.
With CMS 3.0, I’d also be perfectly fine with a paid upgrade, especially if it included something like an online editor.
The YouTube video has components that Elements 2.x does not even have now, so the video doesn’t really help me much.
Ben needs to redo that video with the current tools that we have been given with some upgrades.
I agree, that at times, my mind wanders back to Stacks using Foundation 6. I had the dumb downed version of Joe’s CMS, but found using the Poster 2 stack was quite handy with functioning Categories and Tags. I had used Alloy before that and liked it until Adam closed shop.
I am curious why the components all changed from last year to the current Elements version and without any real documentation as to use what we have.
