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Topics and Tags in Vivvo

This article explains concept of TOPICS, and usage of Topics and Tags in Vivvo CMS

1. What is a topic?

topic is a group of tags. You may distinguish tags into logical sets like people, places or events. This introduces semantic relation between tags that will give more depth and perspective to tagging. By doing so you will dramatically improve site structure and serving related content on your website.

 

2. What do topics offer?

Ability to provide semantic relations to your content

Instead of putting all tags in the same basket like on other CMS systems, with TOPICS you'll be able to group tags in logical sets and give depth and perspective to providing related content to your website visitors.

For example, if you have a website with content related to movie industry, you might want to tag articles using distinct TOPICS - Actors, Genre and Rating. "Actors" topic can have tags: Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro; "Genre" topic can have tags: Drama, Comedy, Action, Thriller; and "Rating" topic: PG-13, R

This way you will be able to automatically serve other comedies on article page that is tagged with genre::comedy, or other movies with the same actor. By doing so, you will provide depth and context to your website content automatically!

Cross-category posting

If you want to take advantage on cross-category posting capability, you may want to use TOPICS instead of CATEGORIES in navigation. Single article can be easily tagged with same tag across several topics, and therefore appear on every respective topic page. 

For example: You have an article about iPhone and topics Apple and Smartphones, respectively. Topic "APPLE" may contain tags: MacBook, iPod, iPhone, OSX, and topic "SMARTPHONES" tags: Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, Motorola, Palm. By tagging the article with Apple::iPhone and Smartphones::iPhone you will ensure that article appears on both topics in navigation and provide cross-category posting. 

 

Advanced control of homepage or other templates

System topic are keywords by default which can’t remove or change. There are the following keywords:  homepageheadlines and video. Articles with keyword “homepage” will be shown in website’s homepage. If you put for some article keyword “headlines” that means your article will appear in headline section. And also with keyword “video”, you put article in section Video.

You can add keywords into System topic like “breaking news” etc.

3. What can I do with that?

As you see, you can manage your articles all around website. If you put article in some category, it will be shown only in that category. But with system topic you can choose where you want to see that article too – maybe on Homepage or like a headline.

Templates for topic

Every topic might have template for itself. 

For example: You have topic „Actors”. In its template you might have a picture for every actor/actress, some description, related articles etc. And template for all actors is the same.

4. Case study “Celebrity profile”

 Celebrity profile plug-in is actually a topic with names of celebrities and their data like biography, pictures, gossip, discography, movies, awards etc. 
All of them might have a picture and basic personal information. Other things are your choice.

 

 

TAGS

tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information. In Vivvo, tags are used to label articles.

For example, you have an article about new Bentley Mulsanne. For this article, you may add two tags at least: bentley and car.

How to add tags?

Tags can be added to article in several different ways.

#1: Adding tags in article add/edit window

#2: Adding tags in article list

#3: Adding tags to Topics.

Keywords topic are the set of any tag you put into yours articles.

For example, you write an article about actress Angelina Jolie and her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations. Yours keywords may be the following: actress, Angelina Jolie, refugees, goodwill ambassador, United Nations etc.

Each of these keywords is separate in itself and it automatically goes to Topic Keywords.

Besides Topic Keywords, all others keywords must be added through some Topic. Here is an example for this:

First, you should click on the topic in which you want to add tags. Second, click on the button „Add tags“. Third, now you can add new tags. And finally, click on the button „Add“ and your tags are in the topic.

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