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Hello, I’m trying to do this:

Main
  -sub main
About
Location
Product
  -product 1
  -product 2
  -product 3
        -product 3a
        -product 3b
        -product 3c

I’m able create the Parent and Child but I cannot get the children from the Child Cat. For instance, if I create an entry and set it to be in the category of Product > -product 3, it creates an entry inside -product 3 > -product 3d

When I click that entry, I would like to get the category parent of that -product 3d entry.

I’m able to get it with js but it gives me the whole list of categories

{exp:channel:entries channel="products" url_title="{segment_3}" limit="1" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="on" paginate="bottom" }
{exp:channel:categories parent_only="yes" category_group="8" limit="1"}
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var oldURL = document.referrer;
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 }
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{/exp:channel:categories}
                    <h1>{title}</h1>
                 
                    <div class="clear"></div>
                  
                    {if product_thumbnail == ""}
                      
                    {if:else}
                      {product_thumbnail}
                    {/if}
                    
                      
                     <!--  {product_thumbnail} -->
                      
                      {product_content_<?php echo $_SESSION['lang']; ?>}      
        
     {/exp:channel:entries}

Please let me know if this can be done without using any plugins.

my bad, I said “I’m able create the Parent and Child but I cannot get the children from the Child Cat. For instance, if I create an entry and set it to be in the category of Product > -product 3, it creates an entry inside -product 3 > -product 3d”

but what I meant to say is that I cannot get the category>category name> of that entry.

I’d say this is one time where using a plugin will just be easier and more elegant.

Hi Javier,

I’m going to agree with Mike on this and recommend Child Categories as a solution.

It’s not clear in the User Guide, but the channel categories tag is a stand-along tag. Nesting it inside of a channel entries tag is discouraged. It can cause some performance problems and can produce unpredictable results too.

That plugin gives you some flexibility above what EE does natively, including category depth.

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