Somehow related to this thread (“Have you merged today?”), I, too, was wondering about a way to determine the category url title. I am building a rather complex navigation menu based on categories, and using Cx is not an option for the client.

I have two options, currently:

- Use a custom category field that the client needs to set for every category (and tends to forget)
- Use {exp:query} one more time

If there is no {category_url_title} there should be—in case of which this might be considered a FR and be moved appropriately. Thank you.

Inside weblog:entries it’s

Inside weblog:category_heading there’s no variable (yet). You’d have to get it from the URL segment.

It really is? Is that documented somewhere, too? Cause a casual search in the docs revealed nothing.

Looks like it got overlooked in the doc updates.  Moving to the FR forum since as silenz points out, there is not such a variable in the category heading tag.

Ok, works as intended (but not advertised). Thanks.

Oversight in the docs fixed.

Is there a way to gather the Category ID from the {category_url_title}?

I want to list entries in a particular category group and I’m targetting segments so although this parameter doesn’t exist for weblog entries I want to achieve something to the same affect -

My URL structure is -

Of course there “is a way to gather the Category ID from the {category_url_title}”, but it requires a quick trip down SQL lane. Try this:

If you let tags do their jobs dynamically, you do not need the category= parameter when using category URL titles; just a suggestion.

Yep

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