Wayfinder and idx possible?

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profilneurotiker Reply #1, 9 years, 3 months ago

Hi there!

I'm trying to add the rich-snippet breadcrumb via the wayfinder call, because the project/site itself doesn't use "real" breadcrumbs.

So far I edited the outerTpl and the rowTpl, but now I have to add an id for the meta-property-part:

<ol vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="BreadcrumbList">
  <li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
    <a property="item" typeof="WebPage"
        href="https://example.com/arts">
      <span property="name">Arts</span></a>
    <meta property="position" content="1">
  </li>
  
  <li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
    <a property="item" typeof="WebPage"
        href="https://example.com/arts/books">
      <span property="name">Books</span></a>
    <meta property="position" content="2">
  </li>
  
  <li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
    <a property="item" typeof="WebPage"
        href="https://example.com/arts/books/poetry">
      <span property="name">Poetry</span></a>
    <meta property="position" content="3">
  </li>
</ol>

I tried using this:

<meta property="position" content="[[+idx]]">

but this seems not to work, the [[+idx]] part is empty.

Isn't idx is implemented/usable this way?

This question has been answered by donquicky. See the first response.

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DonQuicky Reply #2, 9 years, 3 months ago

As far as I know, Wayfinder does not support

[[+idx]]

. The +idx placeholder does exist in extra getResources which you also can use to build any menu.

When still using Wayfinder maybe the placeholder

[[+menuindex]]

can be an option to you?

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profilneurotiker Reply #3, 9 years, 3 months ago

Hi DonQuickie!

Thank you for your reply...

My researches resulted in the same, idx is not available by using wayfinder. I thought about creating a template-variable, but your suggestion to use the menuindex looks even better to me! Thanks for pointing me to that.

Btw....I tried the Google-structured-data-testing-tool even without using the meta-property-position-line, and the test has been successful. So I think it's not necessary to add this line to each li-element.

I also didn't think about using getResources to create the menu, but yeah, this would be an option as well.

Thanks again.

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sottwell Reply #4, 9 years, 3 months ago

Or you can use pdoTools. It provides an idx placeholder for all of its snippets.

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profilneurotiker Reply #5, 9 years, 3 months ago

Hi Susan!

Thanks for your reply as well.

And yeah, I found this during my researches too, but somehow I wanted to stick to wayfinder instead of using pdoTools for the first time. But this surely works too!

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yalyoha Reply #6, 8 years ago

Сниппет: Idx

<?php
global $_idx;
if (!isset($_idx)) $_idx = 0;
echo ++$_idx;

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