Upgrade question about spidering function

[Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Hi,

I am still thinking about upgrading and have a few last questions before I take the plunge.

Could anyone help me understand the DMOZ spidering function that I have read about. Does this mean that I can quickly add categories from DMOZ or does it mean that I can add sites that are listed in DMOZ?

Which leads to a few more questions:
Why would someone want to add sites from DMOZ?

And - is there a quick way that I can add a whole lot of categories? I know about the category project. But what I am after is specific travel related categories.

Thanks in advance!
Chris

[Boby]

You can import only links from a DMOZ category. You give the complete category URL and it crawls the links, then imports them.

Many want to import links to populate empty categories or build a directory really fast.

[Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Thanks, that answers the first part of my question.

Does anyone know if I can get a list of categories related to travel? Is there a quick way to add categories so that I don't have to go through by hand. I imagine that would take a number of hours.

Thanks!

[Boby]

I remember of an old dmoz mod somewhere on the forum. That was about a year ago, soon after I've joined the forum.
Actually I don't know if it's still working, or was ever working :p

That's just a thought... :rolleyes:

[David]

We also have a quick subcategory adder in 3.2 where you can simply list one per line and add the categories that way, so it won't be quite as bad as adding one at a time.

[giggler]

is there a way to make the quick subcateg URL title all lower case?

sub_category instead of Sub_Category

[Boby]

Content visible to registered users only.
/admin/dir_categs_edit.php
Look for (line #219):
Content visible to registered users only.
Right after add:
Content visible to registered users only.

[giggler]

hmmm...that made the title all lower case as well. How do you make it lower case only for the URL title?

[Boby]

Content visible to registered users only.
At line #249 you should have this:
Content visible to registered users only.
Replace with:
Content visible to registered users only.

I'd suggest you also make the cache URLs lowercase (line #253):
Content visible to registered users only.

[giggler]

That was super fast response Boby and it worked great! Thanks!:)