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I am trying to view a weblog by category.

The filtering works when navigating using index.php?/template/C1/

However, all of the weblog’s entries appear (not being filtered) when setting “Use Category URL Title” to YES in Admin > Weblog Admin > Global. 

The code that calls up the entries in the index template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{embed:my_weblog}" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="15" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}

Using Pro 1.6.7

sfgolfer, what is your category trigger word? Are you using any extensions?

What does the url look like?

what is your category trigger word?

I’m using ‘category’.

Are you using any extensions?

Two extensions are being used:
- default jQuery for the Control Panel
- LG TinyMCE

What does the url look like?

index.php?/firm/category/procedures/

So when you visit http://example.com/index.php?/category/procedures, what do you see?

Sue,

The 404 page appears.

Are you using strict URLs? Try using http://example.com/index.php?/site/index/category/procedures.

Yes, I am using strict urls. 

Navigating to either…

index.php?/site/index/category/firm/
index.php?/mlg/category/firm/

...results in entries from all categories.

I’m going to do a fresh install and see if the problem replicates.

please let us know what you find after trying the new install.

Regards,

-greg

sfgolfer:

On second thought, we can probably troubleshoot this without you having to reinstall.  If you have not already gone through with that, give us a hollar and we’ll pick back up.

-greg

I did a second, separate install and Category URL does work.  So there is something on my install that is the culprit.

Filtering by Category when not using Category by URL does work.  If I enable it then all blog entries are shown.

I’m not sure if it is something within the template or a setting somewhere.

This is my multi-entry index template.  Posted here is the EE portion of the template…

This is the .sidebar-categories_dropdown template…

<form name="catmenu" action="">
<select name="selcat" class="dropdown-sidebar">
<option value="">-- Select Category --</option>
{exp:weblog:categories weblog="{my_weblog}" style="linear"}
<option value="{path={my_template_group}}">{category_name}</option>
{/exp:weblog:categories}
</select>
</form>

If you hard-code your weblog short-names rather than assigning an embedded variable, does it work?

{assign_variable:my_weblog="firm-weblog"}
{assign_variable:my_template_group="site"}

Yes.  If I use the above code on the template then all is well.  I am using the site/index template as my multi-entry page.

Can I use a single template (site/index) for multiple weblogs?  I plan on having a few deparmental weblogs and would like to use a single template.

I might suggest trying to take out the my_weblog variable, and move the {embed:weblog} into the weblog tags themselves.

-greg

Yes you can, but what I meant is in the weblog= statement of the weblog entries tag.  I think that part of your issue is that you were creating an assigned variable based off an embed.  The parse order of the template could have been causing this issue.  Without that, things do work for you?

Yes.  Hard coding the weblog name does work.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="firm-weblog" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="15" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}

However, the weblog’s name is being fed to the site/index template from other embedded templates.

Example, if I navigate to index.php?/site/firm-weblog, the firm-weblog template contains this one line:

{embed="site/index" my_weblog="firm-weblog"}

This works fine when viewing the individual blogs.  Also, navigating to index.php shows all entries but that’s fine since I want to list the recent entries for all blogs on the front page.

The embedding scenario works except for when Category URL Titles is turned on (no filtering, all entries are shown).  All is well if Category URL Titles is turned off (category filtering does work).

So I tried this in the site/index template…

{if segment_2 == "category"}{assign_variable:my_weblog="firm-weblog|technology-weblog"}{/if}
{assign_variable:my_weblog="{embed:my_weblog}"}

The word “category” is defined in the Category URL Indicator in the Admin preferences.  I then list all the blogs that the category filtering should look thru.

This seems to work thus far if Category URL Titles is turn on.  Also, all other functions within the site seem to work as expected.

Please correct me if I’m missing something.