Categories using Javascript

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Contents 1 Version 2 Platform 3 Author 4 Homepage 5 License 6 Skill Level 7 Description 8 Method 9 Sites Using This Hack 10 Extensions / Alternates 11 See Also:

Version

Multiple

Platform

Blogger

Author

M at Pappmaskin Diare Techblog Naked Sex Monkey Marc Morales 3Spots

Homepage

http://pappmaskin.blogspot.com/2005/10/blogger-categories.html, with a great how-to by Gretchen at YLCF.

http://nakedsexmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogger-tags-and-categories-how-to.html

http://www.marcmorales.com/2005/10/categories-in-blogger.asp

http://3spots.blogspot.com/2006/05/sidebar-expandcollapse-sub-categories.html

License

-

Skill Level

Intermediate / Advanced

Description

This series of hacks use javascript to display the contents of a tag in your Del.icio.us account in a post on your blog. This pulls blog-search results away from Del.icio.us and integrates them into your template, making the categories appear to be part of your blog set-up and addressing the issue raised by folks who don't like to be taken off-blog to see a list of tagged content.

Method

As per the how-to's linked above, create a post in your blog for each category, & then use a Feed2Javascript service to take the Del.icio.us tag feed and reformat it as a script. Publish the script in the post you created. Hard-code links in your sidebar to each of these dynamic posts.

3Spots version of this hack includes expand / collapse sidebar menus.

Sites Using This Hack

Multiple

Extensions / Alternates

See Also:

In-Blog_Categories_Using_JavaScript by Marc Morales