Hi Paula,

Actually, I didn’t.  I went ahead and made separate category groups and assigned them all to the same blog. The I just filtered by category group instead.  Does that help? 

Yes, it’s helpful hearing what finally worked. I’d thought about just using a category group instead, and wondered if there any limitations to that approach? I’m trying to get the lay of the land…like if you go to display categories that are assigned to multiple blogs, don’t you only get the entries related to that category for the one particular blog you’re in? (i.e., the categories are a handy naming convention to tag content, but not necessarily retrieve ALL content from multiple blogs with that tag?)

If so, seems chunking them into so many groups wouldn’t really affect their availability in different blogs…if you needed ALL the categories in their unchunked glory, you’d just (EDIT:) assign multiple groups to the blog.

Thanks for the quick response! It’s helpful when it arrives when you’re still freshly mired in the problem.

Paula

Joelle,

So I tried the new category group approach and it’s working really well. Helped things fall into place quite nicely, and solved another problem too. Thanks for the suggestion.

Paula

Joelle,

when you say you got it working using category groups do you mean that you abandoned the subcategories plugin and reworked it using the categiry groups (in which case how doyou get the category group name variable?) or do you mean that you used the subcategories plugin to extract the category group names?

Is it possible to use some form of

for the subcategories tag? Its a wee problem when the subcategories are shown regardless whether they have any entries or not

Hi all

The subcategories plugin looks good; it outputs the child categories of a given “root_node” (parent category) as promised. However, I can’t link to the category.

My previous code looked like this:

Although I saw the whole tree from the highest parent to the lowest child, at least it linked to the category (automatically appended /category/category_name)

The new code currently looks like this:

but it links to the “dialogue/events” template with no category_name appended.

I use category names. Is there any way around this?

Hi,

I am using this plugin to display my subcatogries.

I would like to do the following:

When there are no subcategories in the root_node, there need to be the text “empty”

Now it displays empty at the categories that have subcategories. The categories without subcategories displays nothing.

Can someone help me?

@Richard Frank

Do you mean that the url isn’t getting the category_name added to the end?

You could add it to the url manually.

Like this…

See if that works?

thanks, I went with another solution, but that does look like it would work fine…

Has this thing ever been updated? My subcategories plugin reads “Copyright 2005”, and is version ‘Beta 2’. Now that 1.6 has the category_url_title field (among other new fields), I’d love to be able to pull that in as well.

Ryan, MF hasn’t been around since the end of August. You might try contacting him directly.

Thanks, Sue. I modified my version to pull in that new field - but I ended up going another direction entirely based on a suggestion I saw Boyink post elsewhere about just using a relationship to work as a “bucket” rather then using (sub)categories.

EE is almost too flexible sometimes!

So are you going to release your version?

Please release the new version, it sounds like it is exactly what I am after.

Thanks

Well, I found this thread, and went ahead and made the change for a ‘category_url_title’ field. I modified the Beta version # and the documentation.

Unfortunately, I am going to need to remove that attachment.  The plugin is under Copyright, which means you’ll need MF’s permission to modify and distribute those changes.  I highly recommend contacting him.

Sorry, I only posted because Sue was asking ‘mdesign’ to release his version, and didn’t mention this fact.

Well, you could post instructions for making that change; but not the actual file. =)