Joomla Tags As Custom Filters

https://www.testingthis.website). One of the features I created was a masonry style view (https://www.testingthis.website/trips) with no javascript or css edits – just some simple template overrides.

The tutorial below is for creating a simpler version of that view using tags instead of custom fields. A custom fields version will follow.

Setup

  • Create a single category called Holiday

  • Create the tags you need to filter the content eg Beach, Nature, City, Historic

  • Create multiple articles in the Holiday category

    • Add Tags to each article
    • Add Readmore to each article

  • Create a menu item of type Articles->Category Blog

  • Edit the Holiday category and add all the tags

Template Override 1

  • Create overrides for Layouts->joomla->content

  • Create a new file called filters.php in the folder /templates/template_name/html/layouts/joomla/content

  • Paste the code below into that file and save

    <?php defined('_JEXEC') or die; ?>
<?php if (!empty($displayData)) : ?> <?php foreach ($displayData as $i => $tag) : ?> <input type="checkbox" class="btn-check" name="CheckBox" id="<?php echo $tag->alias; ?>" value="<?php echo $tag->alias; ?>"> <label class="btn btn-outline-primary btn-sm" for="<?php echo $tag->alias; ?>"><?php echo $tag->title; ?></label> <?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Template Override 2

  • Create overrides for Components->com_content->category

  • Open the override for /templates/template_name/html/com_content/category/blog.php

  • Insert the code below before line 36

    $tags = $this->category->tags->itemTags;
$filter = implode( ',', array_map( fn(object $tag): string => '[value="' . $tag->alias . '"]:checked ~ .blog-items .blog-item:not([data-category~="' . $tag->alias . '"])', ($this->category?->tags?->itemTags ?? []) ?: [] ) );
/** @var JoomlaCMSWebAssetWebAssetManager $wa */
$wa = Factory::getApplication()->getDocument()->getWebAssetManager();
$wa->addInlineStyle($filter . '{display: none; opacity: none;}');

  • On new line 63 replace joomla.content.tags with joomla.content.filters

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  • Around line 105 delete the highlighted code below

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  • Save & Close the file.

Template Override 3

  • Open the override for /templates/template_name/html/com_content/category/blog_item.php

  • Before line 35 insert the following code

    <div class="com-content-category-blog__item blog-item" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/BlogPosting" data-category=" <?php if ($params->get('show_tags', 1) && !empty($this->item->tags->itemTags)) : ?> <?php foreach ($this->item->tags->itemTags as $tag) { echo $tag->alias . ' '; }; ?> <?php endif; ?> ">

  • At the very end of the file insert the following code

    </div>

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