http://posner.bonfx.com

At the bottom of the page, I have a weblog tag configured like so:

This works fine. When I add the second blog like this, it works fine:

When I change the category_group to “22” it stops working, though category 22 is valid.

When I add another category_group “24”, it still doesn’t work:

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ID 22 is from one category grouping and ID 24 is from another. In neither case, does the output work, though both categories are valid:

http://posner.bonfx.com/index.php/posner/blog_main/C22/
http://posner.bonfx.com/index.php/posner/blog_personal/C24/

What am I doing wrong that I can’t filter my weblog:entries output by these category IDs?

Thanks,

Doug

Hi, Doug. I doubt you have 24 category groups, that’s different from a category_id of 22 or 24.

If you get rid of category_group altogether, and let EE pass the category_id via the URL, does that work?

Hmmm….I changed “category_group” to “category_id” and it worked!

But…

If you read here, it says nothing about category_id as a parameter, but only as a variable. Should it be working??:

http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/weblog/categories.html

Either way, I got it working! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!!

Doug

Yea, the parameter should be category- I thought if you put the id bit in there it was ignored.  Hm- does it work using category instead?  If so, I’d go with that.

It’s working right now with “category_id” as a weblog paramater, not as a variable inside the weblog tag. The docs show it as a variable at the link above.

Is “category_id” referenced anywhere in the documentation as a weblog parameter? Is this just a documentation gaffe?

It’s not a weblog tag parameter as far as I know.  And I think I had one the other day where it caused an error- basically, the parameter was ignored.  Does it work if you change the parameter name to category?

I just tried changing it to “category=” from “category_id=” and it still works!

You can view at http://posner.bonfx.com, at the bottom of the page.

Then sounds like all is well- and it’s better to go w/the documented parameter.  Like I say- I’m surprised EE did anything with it as category_id.

We good to close this one out, or you want to poke around a bit to be triple sure?

Nope, I’m good on this one! Thanks again! EE support is the bomb…

Wheeee!  Closed.