Link empty container to specified child resource

Is there a simple solution to link a parent resource directly to a child resource? I have several menu items that all have child menu items and making every parent resource a page would create a lot of extra clicking and unnecessary content.

Here’s a similar post from 2005 that looks way outdated - http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1394.0.html

One solution would be to keep the parent resource empty and use 301 redirects to direct them to the desired resource, but that seems less than ideal.

Thanks for your help.

DropMenu is indeed outdated

The FirstChildRedirect snippet looks like what you need. It should be pre-installed in Evolution.

If not: http://modxcms.com/extras/package/151?version=255


If you’re looking for some more advanced redirect (somewhat): phiRedirect looks good: http://modxcms.com/extras/package/?package=338

Yup, FirstChildRedirect. I think that snippet comes standard with MODx now. On the parent page, you just put
[[FirstChildRedirect]] code there, if memory serves, and it will pass you along to the first item in that folder. You may need to rearrange menu item order in the folder to get it working the way you want it.

I was told be an SEO guy that doing this is somewhat un-SEO-ish, so he actually kept landing pages for each parent. Not being an SEO expert, I really couldn’t say. In any case, I’ve used this snippet on a bunch of sites.

Cheers

Quote from: samba at Jun 29, 2010, 12:37 PM

I was told be an SEO guy that doing this is somewhat un-SEO-ish, so he actually kept landing pages for each parent. Not being an SEO expert, I really couldn’t say. In any case, I’ve used this snippet on a bunch of sites.

Imo, if you have a category page sort of thing you could take advantage of it by making it show a list or something linking to the individual resources. It increases your internal links, and visitors might find it convenient to be able of looking into that specific category.

I don’t think that making it redirect has a real negative influence on your SEO, but you are missing out on some potential advantages.

Brilliant. Worked like a charm.

And thanks for the SEO tip.