chartfieldconsultants
03-06-07, 12:49
My feature request: user-defineable category trees.
Seems to me that this would be the single most useful new feature that could be added, as it would end at a stroke all the confusion about how to set up niche sites and also mean that you could set up a site selling (say) kitchen supplies safe in the knowledge that users couldn't under any circumstances confuse themselves by finding a page of search results for garden spades, iPods, or men seeking women in Stockton-upon-Tees.
As things stand, if you want to build a DIY shop, or a toy shop, you can set your shop to just display those categories and their children, but users still have access to all categories through the search drop-down and so on. What's more, if you want to build a niche site that skips across categories, for example a 'smellies' site with soaps and scented candles, then you've got a problem as they are in completely different branches of the tree.
What's needed is the ability to create a category tree by defining new relationships between those categories we want to use and excluding all others. The global parent would remain the same, but from there we could choose which of the existing categories we wanted to be the highest-level children of it, and which categories would act as their children. All categories we didn't put in our new trees would be ignored by the site and never served up.
How does that sound?
Seems to me that this would be the single most useful new feature that could be added, as it would end at a stroke all the confusion about how to set up niche sites and also mean that you could set up a site selling (say) kitchen supplies safe in the knowledge that users couldn't under any circumstances confuse themselves by finding a page of search results for garden spades, iPods, or men seeking women in Stockton-upon-Tees.
As things stand, if you want to build a DIY shop, or a toy shop, you can set your shop to just display those categories and their children, but users still have access to all categories through the search drop-down and so on. What's more, if you want to build a niche site that skips across categories, for example a 'smellies' site with soaps and scented candles, then you've got a problem as they are in completely different branches of the tree.
What's needed is the ability to create a category tree by defining new relationships between those categories we want to use and excluding all others. The global parent would remain the same, but from there we could choose which of the existing categories we wanted to be the highest-level children of it, and which categories would act as their children. All categories we didn't put in our new trees would be ignored by the site and never served up.
How does that sound?