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About Zoo Triggers

A standard Structure install is not playing nice with categories and archives. Using a custom url gives 404 errors or you have to lose hours making it work with other add-ons and pieces of PHP code.

Let’s say you have the following url:

http://domain.com/blog

Fantastic! It’s clean and everyone knows where it’s pointing to. But then… when your visitors click on the category ‘announcements’, you want to point them to:

http://domain.com/blog/category/announcements

In the past, you were puzzling with other add-ons and pieces of PHP-code to get this working; but with Triggers it’s only a matter of seconds:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" limit="5" dynamic="off" 
     paginate="bottom" {triggers:entries}}

Adding the {triggers:entries} tag to your code, will do all the magic for you. We can even take it a step further, let’s go wild and add another category to the url:

http://domain.com/blog/category/announcements/software

Now again, Triggers will do the magic for you. It will look for all to posts in category ‘announcements’ or ‘software’. If you want to require both categories, you can set this in the settings in the ExpressionEngine Control Panel of your website.

But wait; there is even more. We want a readable title, which tells our visitors where they are in a human way. Let’s add this peace of code:

<h1>{title} {triggers:entries_title}</h1>

This will generate the following title:

Blog in categories announcements and software.