MuraCon Notes - Filtering Your Content With Mura CMS

October 01, 2013

Filtering Your Content With Mura CMS - Steve Withington

How do i get to content that's important to me?
Content collections
- some kind of filtered subset of content
- aka feed, content index, local content index, etc

RSS Feeds
- allow end users to consume your content

the idea: you have a mountain of content, want to get down to just content with a location attribute of "by the river", etc

NPR site
hundreds of RSS feeds

it's all about the end user

featured content, tags -- just meta data, describing the page/content

whenever changing a content collection, click the "preview RSS" button.
the reason is, if you get nothing back from the RSS feed, that means no data matches your filter. users won't get anything either.

if the "preview feed" works, now i know if i go to the home page and click "Layout Objects" and add this content index, i'll get content

gist.github.com/stevewithington/public
...code snippets to solve various common problems.

MuraSolr plugin -- a better way to go for crazy complex search filters. don't build complex custom searches with filters, just use the Solr plugin, it'll probably be a quicker way to go.

ElasticSeach plugin coming soon too. based on Lucern search, should be very cool.

Other resources:

gist.github.com/stevewithington
mura books cfml.us/73 (not updated for 6.1 yet, just 6.0)
muracloud.com
github.com/BlueRiver