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Am I right that EE doesn’t have tags built in, only categories? I’m building a gallery and was wondering what the best way to create sub-criteria for searching would be.

Do I create multiple category groups - say for media: painting, digital etc., or subject: building, people, fruit etc., and then display these in templates wherever I like.

Trying to figure out what add-ons I’ll be needing. I presume Matrix is a given? anything else?
I need to make it as simple as possible for non technical users to add galleries and images.

Hello stevo_s

Matrix should be just about all you need to be honest with EE2 and the new file manager you are all set.

Categories are probably the best way to go and I would check out Low’s seg2cat add-on if you want to show 2 cats at once e.g. ‘Media Digital’ + ‘People’ and only show galleries that meet both criteria - which isn’t easy with default categories and worth having a think-through before you commit to building it out.

Seg2Cat is here: http://loweblog.com/freelance/article/ee-low-seg2cat-extension/

Happy EE’ing

Ok, thanks. Do you know with Matrix if you can create extra fields for things like captions, categories, client or whatever.

They never seem to explain very well all the features of those add-ons.

It’s a case of whether a gallery is on post per image basis, or a gallery that is one post but uses something like Matrix.
But I’m assuming categories could only be assigned on a per post basis rather than on an image in a matrix field basis?

And if you have 50 matrix style image entries you couldn’t paginate the entries, like a gallery with 3 pages or whatever?

Yes with Matrix you could create as many fields in the matrix as you like - so fields for Alt, caption etc are all easily created along with the image itself. These fields though are part of the matrix ‘loop’ itself - so they would be all under one main Matrix custom field. I don;t know about specifying categories that way though.

Categories can only be applied on a per-post basis so if it is the ‘image’ that’s important rather than the ‘gallery’ or collection then making them single entries may be the way to go.

Yes you wouldn’t be able to paginate (easily) other than in a regular channel entries tag

Ok, thanks.