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Hi All,

I’m sure this is super easy but I’m really struggling! I have a 4 categories that are displaying fine for my ‘food_offers’ weblog.

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="food-offers" style="linear"}

<h3><a href="http://{path=food/offers/{category_url_title}}">{category_name}</a></h3>

<p><br />
{/exp:weblog:categories}

Easy. The problem I’m having is on my offers/category page. I can’t get it to display the weblog entries within that category. Here’s what I have so far but it’s only displaying {offer-title} 4 times (I have 4 entries but only 1 in each category)

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="food-offers" style="linear" category="{category_id"}

<h3>{offer-title}</h3>

<p><br />
{/exp:weblog:categories}

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Thanks in advance,
Brett

Hi Brett. First you need to change your link from

<h3><a href="http://{path=food/offers/{category_url_title}}">{category_name}</a></h3>

to

<h3><a href="http://{path=food/offers}">{category_name}</a></h3>

EE will take care of adding the category to the url. Next, you need to use the weblog:entries tag on your category page, not the weblog:categories tag; and make sure you use the parameter dynamic=“on”. That should do it.

Ian,

Thanks for the reply. I’ve made those changes but I get all entries for that weblog on every category page. I’ve double checked the entries have different categories set and they do.

Here’s my updated offers template

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="food-offers" dynamic="on"}

<h3>{offer-title}</h3>

<p>{/exp:weblog:entries}

The dynamic flag should pull in only entries related to that category right?

Thanks,
Brett

Hi bmdstinky, have you seen The Importance of Semantics: Displaying Categories?  That should help you clear this up.

Also moving down to technical support.  You only need dynamic= if you’re turning it off, on/yes (1.6.9/2.0 respectively) is the default state.