post labeling, how ???

[zlamushka]

Hi there,

I am new to blogging and have couple (or more) questions.

I am writing a blog about spicy food from all over the world. I would love to organize my recipes, so on the left side, there will be recipes sorted By Country and under it, there is a category Dish Type.

Now, I heard that this can be done by labelling posts. I did that, but for some silly reason everything I lable seems to show in both categories, By Country and By Dish Type... and that looks stoooopid ...

please have a look at what what I ve done at burntmouth.blogspot.com and tell me what went wrong ?

thanx a lot for any help

[Dracula]

Hi Zlamushka,

As far as I know adding a label will allow you (someone else) to find all posts with that label. Therefore if you add both label to a post (like Curry Pastes, Malay) the post will appear in both hmmm....categories ?..but wait, here is the problem.
I don't know how you create the left menu, but I suppose the labels are added there automatically. And that means there is no label category (because there is impossible to "magically" know what label to which category belongs). If it would have been possible to choose categories for labels or even for posts, than probem is solved.

Of course, another idea would be to create the menu yourself and to manually link to posts there.

Hope that helps !
Radu

[zlamushka]

Thanx a lot,

I understand that blogger automatically places all the labels accordingly. I guess it is impossible to have two different labelling mechanisms ?

Is it possible to pre-define labels (and divide those in two categories) ? Then it should work. Blogger would only place them under the correct label (regardless which group it is)...

DOES ANYBODY HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH THIS ?

Z

[Dracula]

Indeed, the idea would be to be able to divide labels in categories (predefined label or choosing the category for each new label). However I don't think blogger allows this. I'll try to do some coding tonight if I have a little bit of time, however chances are low to "convince" blogger do manage this just by coding.

Nevertheless is pretty easy to manually add links in cathegories, I know is not the most elegant solution, however is a workaround to blogger limits.

All best,
Radu

[zlamushka]

Hi Radu,

thanx again.

I am not a huge programmer myself, I get the general idea, I can work with HTML (a bit with CSS), but that s about it.

How about this:
I saw a weblog that had recipes sorted by categories and then subcategories (all automatically, via labeling). I like that.. any idea how that is possible ?

so the outcome would be:

- General
---blah blah
---yada yada
- By country
--- thai
--- chinese
--- romanian
- By dish type
--- curry paste
--- seasoning
--- dip

zlamushka

[Dracula]

To you happen to remember the link of that blog ? If this is done automatically...could it be that the blog is not hosted and empowered by blogger but other blogging service ?

You made me curious about this, let's try to solve this mistery out !

Take care,
Radu