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Hi All…

On my blog I have all my entries displaying as well as a list of all the associated categories. Obviously, the idea being when you click on a link to the category, it will show all the related entries for that category.

The problem is - when you click on the category link, it displays ALL entries (regardless of category).

On my blog page, I have this:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blog" limit="5" paginate="bottom" category="not 23"}

If I take out the

category="not 23"

then the category links work just fine (ie, only display the related entries). Leave it in - and it displays all entries.

This is the code I am using to display the categories:

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="blog" style="linear" show="not 23"}<li><a href="http://{path=blog}">{category_name}</a></li>{/exp:weblog:categories}

And here is a link to the page in question:

http://www.jessmarksphotography.com.au/blog

THanks!

Hi stamper,

This sounds like the expected behavior. From the documentation on the category parameter:

Note:Using this parameter will automatically cause ExpressionEngine to ignore any category information specified via the URL. For instance, if you are on a “category page” (e.g. a “/C13/” segment in the URL) that will be completely ignored in favor of whatever you have specified via the parameter.

Make sense?

Thanks for the speedy reply… 😊

Make sense…. haha.. umm.. not really. I did actually read that just before posting.. but could not make sense of what it was meaning. To me, it seems to say: “if you use “category = not” then, you can not display a page of category related articles”. - But surely I am misunderstanding?

So then, how do I have a page of articles that don’t include Category 23 - and then display a list of categories, that don’t include Category 23 that when clicked on, will give me a page of articles just for that category? IN other words, how do I make this work?

stamper,

Ok so you have 2 templates right?

Your template group is called ‘blog’ and you have an ‘index’ and a ‘category’ template?

On your index template add

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blog" limit="5" paginate="bottom" category="not 23"}

and

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="blog" style="linear" show="not 23"}<li><a href="http://{path=blog}">{category_name}</a></li>{/exp:weblog:categories}

On your category template add the following without the category parameter

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blog" limit="5" paginate="bottom"}

Is this the set-up you have?