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I’d like to list the categories an entry is posted in. If no categories have been selected, I’d like it to say “None” or not show the category section all together. Using if no_results doesn’t seem to work.

My code is below (and doesn’t work):

<strong>Category:</strong> {categories backspace="2"}{if no_results}None{if:else}{category_name}, {/if}{/categories}

The categories loop doesn’t have a no_results conditional, so that won’t work.

There is a plugin available for EE1 called Category Count, but it hasn’t been ported to EE2 yet.

I could check and see if I can whip something up as I don’t think it should be hard to create something for EE2.

Greetz,
Wouter

Yeah, I’m on EE2. If you wouldn’t mind putting something together real quick, that’d be great!

As promised, here’s a quick extensions to do what you need and you can get it from GitHub.

Just install the add-on and it adds a {category_count} variable to the available variables in the {exp:channel:entries} loop.

{exp:channel:entries channel='lorem'}
  {if category_count == 0}None{if:else}{categories backspace='2'}{category_name}, {/categories}{/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

I haven’t tested it extensively, but this add-on is so simple it couldn’t break that much.

Greetz,
Wouter

Awesome, thank you!

Does it work for you?

Thanks for the assist, Wouter!

fouroakschurch, does Wouter’s add-on help?

Working great for me! Thank you so much!

Glad to hear it Brian.

fouroakschurch, what about you?