Motivation

In the last releases Joomla improved the way how we can divide the content to categories, by physical assigning to real categories, as well as creating on demand many "virtual categories" by combining Joomla categories with tags.

This helped admins to use Joomla core features instead of 3rd-party extension for complex grouping, dividing in logical categories. We have tried to port the features from external extensions and achive same only using categories + tags + menu items with filter features.

I have almost managed to achieve my requirements as well, but realized I have to mix using the menu items "Category Blog" and "Tagged Items" because both of them have some small differences and gaps which does not allowed me to works smoothly only with the default one "Category Blog", which could and should cover this kind of needs.

In details following improvements have to be implemented to close the gaps and differences between "Category Blog" and "Tagged Items".

Logical matching of tags

Menu Item "Category Blog" and "Tagged Items" using another logical operator when multiple tags selected ("Category Blog" -> OR but "Tagged Items" AND).

Feature Request 1

Menu Item "Category Blog" - Multiple Tags selected are handled with OR operator. Please add a configuration parameter "tags combine type : AND / OR"

Feature Request 2

Menu Item "Tagged Items" - Multiple Tags selected are handled with AND operator. Please add a configuration parameter "tags combine type : AND / OR"

Overriding category image and description

"Tagged Items" menu item has an option to select an custom intro image and description for this particular menu item which is displayed on the top of the blog layout (in the "Tag Option" tab). This is very good feature because by defining various combination of multiple tags a kind of virtual "category" is being presented to the user requiring a quite new picture and description.

But this kind of possibility is completely missing in the Menu Item "Category Blog". This menu item always displays the intro image of the selected category and there is no way to override this image for particular menu items - for example in case the selected filtering by Tag is adjusting the category sense and the default image of the category does not fit anymore and a dedicated image for category+tag combination would be better.

Feature Request 3

Add a feature to override the "category image" and category description for menu item of type "Category Blog / List" to give a change to adjustment category "meaning" after filtering (narrowing) by tag using custom image - exactly how is implemented in the "Tagged Items" type.