Building on Mary’s upm_category_image plugin which provides us with the functionality to replace text links to categories with linked images, this tip suggests a method which can produce similar results for a section list. This is made possible with Stef’s smd_gallery.
- Download, install and activate the smd_gallery plugin
The method
- Create an image category named “section-images”.
- Upload one image for each section you have.
- Change the “name” field of the image with that of the section you would like the image to be linked to.
- Allocate the image category “section-images” for the images and save.
The code
<ul><txp:smd_gallery form="section-links" category="section-images" /></ul>
and the section-links form:
<li><a rel="section" href="<txp:site_url />{name}/"><img src="<txp:site_url />images/{imagedef}" title="{caption}" alt="{alt}" thumb="1" /></a></li>
I’ve been manually hand-coding menus that require images…
I will definitely check this out, thank you!
Seems to be a good idea but the step 3 is a problem. The images do not link to sections they represent. With what exactly do one have to replace
<txp:site_url />{name}/to make each image link to its section?