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Not Understanding How Low Seg2Cat Works

Posted: 02 July 2010 02:44 PM

[ Ignore ]

Joined: 2003-12-22
210 posts

Friends:

I’m having a really difficult time understanding how the Low Seg2Cat extension is supposed to work, am I’m hoping someone can help me.

I’m trying to use a url like this:

so that it shows all of the entries in category1 (the category name).

Here is the code I’m using in the “news” template to show the entries:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" category="{segment_3_category_name}" sort="desc" limit="10"}
{title}<br />
{body}
{/exp:weblog:entries} 

But that results in no entries being listed at all.

I’m sure I’m doing something really dumb, but I can’t figure out what it might be.

Can someone help?

Thanks in advance,

Frank

Posted: 02 July 2010 03:53 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 1 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

Joined: 2006-09-06
513 posts

For category you need an ID, not name. So try:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" category="{segment_3_category_id}" sort="desc" limit="10"}
{title}<br />
{body}
{/exp:weblog:entries} 

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Kyle Summer | smartpill design | New Haven, CT | twitter

Posted: 02 July 2010 04:24 PM

[ Ignore ] [ # 2 ] [ Rating: 0 ]

Joined: 2003-12-22
210 posts

Thanks Kyle. I was right - I was doing something really dumb. I knew the tag needed the category ID (rather than the name), but I was dense. <grin>