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I’m using EE2 by the way.  I have two channels used for blog 1 and blog 2.  I have a category group for “recent tags” assigned to each blog.  I have a pull down menu where I want to show the most recent tags.. 5 total.

If I use the channels categories tag I can pull up the list, but I can’t limit or sort the entries. If I use the channels entries tag I can’t get any data to pull up for the categories.

Can I limit the categories tag results by (limit=”“)?
Can I pull categories out of the entries tag?

Thanks,

Joe

I’m moving my questions over to this post…

http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/178803/

Nevermind… I think that thread is closed.  I’ve basically answered both questions with the code I used here.  It’s obvious now that the categories tag can not have the limit on it, but if the global variable tag is used then a limit can be set.  Your only really limiting the number of categories being shown per entry.  If two entries have the same category then your jump menu looks a little screwed because of the duplicate entries.

<div>
              <h4>Recent Tags</h4>
<p>{exp:channel:entries channel="my_blog_channel" orderby="date" limit="5"}<br />
            <ul><br />
            {categories limit="5" show_group="6"}<li><a href="http://{path=SITE_INDEX}">{category_name}</a></li>{/categories}<br />
            </ul>   <br />
{/exp:channel:entries}   <br />
</div>

If blog entry one has category “sample1” and “sample2” and
If blog entry two has category “sample2” and “sample3” then my list output shows…

sample1
sample2
sample2
sample3

If I limit my entries to limit=“1” then I obviously won’t have duplicates, but then may have only one category in my list if only one category was selected for the blog entry.

In overview my goal is to use Categories for a “Tagging” system then show a menu with the results.

Devdemon.com has a module called tagger that does these tagging features well, but I can not separate the results per channel so it is no good to me.