Items Manager - ver: 1.4

[alienee2]

Am I correct in reading this support forum, that with Items Manager it is NOT possible to:

• List only the items from one category
  

• Sort the items in anyway other than how it manually decides
  

I'm creating a site for a restaurant and I was hoping I could use Items Manager to create their menu. It seemed like an easy way for the end user to manage it. But, if I can't list only the appetizers separate from the rest, the entrees separate from the rest, etc, than I have to find another way.

EDIT: So, I've figured out that I can use the get_items(); tag to allow filtering. Can someone please post a simple way to filter the results by category?

I think if you were to simply use i18n Special Pages you wouldn't have any problem achieving that;

For the menu item categories, you would most likely use tags and then when you need to create a list of appetizers, you would use the i18n search results to display only items with that tag; you could display the search results very easily any way you want; as far as ordering the results, there is probably a way to get an array of the data for the special pages, in your case the menu items, and then sort them before outputting the list;

As far as i remember the items manager sorts by url, so if you use items manager and want custom sorting you would only need to specify the order using a 2 digit number as the beginning of your page slug; you could then add some rules to your htaccess to get the output results to render the URL how you want it.

when you want to display the results of only one 'category', in i18n Special Pages, you would have to setup the category as a tag and then specify what to output in the search results tag.