[support] Creating duplicate content (on purpose)

[Jeff]

My apologies in advance. I'm probably missing something vital here  
because I think it seems too simple to me:

Tag+tag

?

I do that all the time & have duplicate content all over the place!

(Please forgive me, and do let me know what I'm missing.)



On 10 Mar 2011, at 7:16 PM, Andy Fowlston wrote:

>> One way I can think of doing it is creating a "master" node, along
>> with 'blank' secondary nodes, and using hook_nodeapi to use the
>> content from the master node when a secondary node is called. This
>> seems slightly hacky. Is there a module that already does this?
>
> I did something similar on a site, it worked, wasn't too hacky. I  
> created a content type called cloned page, it had no body and a  
> nodereference field to point to the page it's cloning. Then by  
> setting the display of the reference you can get very close to the  
> effect you want automatically. I think I might've needed to do a  
> small bit of custom theming, not sure. It's important btw to set the  
> canonical URL to avoid duplicate content penalties.
>
>> can I use hook_menu_alter or something to add a second menu item that
>> References the original?
>
> For my use case my clients wanted to be able to add different  
> banners to the different pages, and my banner system worked on nids  
> so just playing with the menu wasn't an option (for me!). Also it  
> would've meant that when you clicked on the 'cloned' menu item, the  
> active menu trail would jump to be that of the 'master' menu item.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
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> Subject: [support] Creating duplicate content (on purpose)
>
> There's a some pages on a site where the content (and title etc) of
> the node are identical, although the url (and it's place in the menu
> system) are different. So for example Ideally I don't want to have to
> copy and paste everytime the content is updated.
>
> The main issue is having it in a second place on the menu tree:
> creating an alias so that foo/item is an alias of bar/item, for
> example, means that the bar menu is triggered at foo/item
>
> One way I can think of doing it is creating a "master" node, along
> with 'blank' secondary nodes, and using hook_nodeapi to use the
> content from the master node when a secondary node is called. This
> seems slightly hacky. Is there a module that already does this?
>
> Alternatively, rather than creating the secondary nodes, can I use
> hook_menu_alter or something to add a second menu item that references
> the original?	
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