How Do You Create A Navigation Of Entry Types?

Question

If I were to have entries of types: Book, Film, Note, Post and Bookmark. How would I automatically create a list of links (or a filter) to each entry type?

Answer 1

First, get your section. The following code will return you a SectionModel:

{% set section = craft.sections.getSectionByHandle('mySectionHandle') %}

Next, get the Entry Types off it. This will return you an array of EntryTypeModel objects:

{% set entryTypes = section.getEntryTypes() %}

From there you can loop through them to create your nav:

{% for entryType in entryTypes %}
    <a href="{{ url('types/'~entryType.handle) }}">{{ entryType.name }}</a>
{% endfor %}

You’ll want to create a Route which accepts those dynamic URLs (e.g. types/(slug)), and point it to a template like “types/_type.html”.

From that _type template, you can fetch entries of the requested type like this:

{% set type = craft.request.getSegment(2) %}
{% set entries = craft.entries.type(type) %}