Panels Taxonomy

Note: This addon is currently deprecated. Try the "vocabulary context" features in Panels 2.

This is a "taxonomy browser" component for panels. Together with embedded views, it lets you lay out your taxonomy displays any way you like.

Features:

• Each panel handles the browsing for an entire vocabulary
• Good breadcrumbs support, shows term/vocab description and title.
• Replaces standard taxonomy display (taxonomy/term/id)

Requirements

• Latest Panels 2 release (tested with alpha 7).
• Views (to to actually display content items in your panel)

Getting started

I'm assuming that you've enabled panels_taxonomy and the required modules, and that you have a vocabulary already in place, with categories to browse and content associated with the categories. You should also have a panel created.

Add a "taxonomy browser" to your panel, and choose whichever display options you want to enable. Set the "Argument position" to 1, for the first argument to the panel (ie, panel_url/term_id).

Add one or more views (to display content items associated with the current category).

• Check "Send arguments"
• Leave the "Arguments" text field empty
• Tip: Instead of making your own custom view, you could just use the taxonomy_term default view, which is included with views (make sure it is enabled in the admin/build/views). It also makes a good starting point if you want to create custom views.

Save the panel!

Now you could for example set site homepage to the path for your panel.

Future

Right now Panels Taxonomy is pretty much feature complete. More display options would be nice (tree view etc), and it might also be cool if the underlying views arg handler accepted "classic" taxonomy term args with AND and OR symbols.