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Any ideas?

Hi, maxbato. Could you be more specific? Perhaps some sample code?

Sure:

{exp:channel:category_heading}

    <h1>{category_name}</h1>
    {if extended_description}
    {extended_description}
    {/if}
{/exp:channel:category_heading}

Only works when “Use Category URL Titles In Links?” is set to “No”.

I have a feeling that when set to “Yes” the code that makes “This word will be used in the URL to indicate to the channel display engine that you are showing a category.” really does not do what it says.

In my case, when set to “No” my URL is: “http://www.avagolighting.com/pages/products/C1” and the above code shows fine on the top of my page.

When set to “Yes” the URL is “http://www.avagolighting.com/pages/products/category/aslb_series_light_bulbs” and I get no Category Name or extended description.

maxbato,

Are you nesting that tag pair in any other tags?
Can you show some more of that template and what surrounds the category heading tags

Can you confirm your version and build?
Is it the same as in your signature?

Are you using any third-party add-ons?

Version 2.1.1
Addons are Freeform and Wigwam.

And even without the conditionals inside the cat_heading tags, it will not work with url_titles set to Yes.

Here is the entire template:

I don’t recall the exact reason now, but I’ve run into this one before and I believe the category heading function was dependent on the category_url_title being in a specific segment, or that there be a “C” number in the URL (meaning it wouldn’t work on single-entry pages) or something along those lines.

We ended up coding a work-around for our sites. I’m going to follow this thread to see how its resolved.

Hi maxbato,

As per the documentation for this tag you must specify the channel if you use the category name in URL feature. Please try adding a channel and then test this again.

Cheers

Greg

Thank you! I kept reading it over and over again and didn’t put two and two together with the requirement of the “channel name”

All good now.

Very glad to hear it. Please post again as needed.