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I’ve got a single template that I’d like to show some different content in a sidebar based on what category someone is on.

{exp:channel:entries channel="pages"}
    {if category_id=="41"}
 <h4>Related Articles</h4>
<p>    {/if}<br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

So above, I’d like to show the h4 “Related Articles” if the page that the user is on was assigned to that category.
I’m currently trying to use the category id but that doesn’t work.

You’re trying too hard…;)

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/channel_entries.html#related-categories-mode

It’s a little trickier than that.

So I’ve got this

<h4>Related Video Links</h4>

<p><br />
{exp:channel:entries related_categories_mode="yes" custom_fields="yes"}<br />
       <ul><br />
  <li><a href="http://{title_permalink}">{title}</a></li><br />
 </ul><br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

The h4 tag is what I want to change based on which category it is.
I’ve got 3 categories (videos, articles, presentations). So whenever someone is on a video page, I want the related video page links to show (which they do) but also show that h4 tag to say “Related Video Links”.
And then if they’re on a article page, I want that h4 tag to say “Related Article Links”.

Hopefully that makes sense.

There are {category}{/category} tags for displaying category information within the channel:entries tag pair.

Hey skodaminotti,

I am glad that Mike was able to help you out with categories here.

Do you understand what he is referencing? It would look like this.

{categories}
<a href="http://{path=channel/index}">{category_name}</a>
{/categories}

Cheers,

Here’ what I’ve got so far:

{exp:channel:entries related_categories_mode="yes" custom_fields="yes"}
{categories}
<h4>Related {category_name} Links Here</h4>
<p>{/categories}<br />
       <ul><br />
  <li><a href="http://{title_permalink}">{title}</a></li><br />
 </ul><br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

The h4 doesn’t show up. Here’s a look at the live page, it’s the links in the sidebar
http://financial.skodaminotti.com/estate-planning-calculators
I want to show a different h4 for each group of category links.

Hey there skodaminotti,

What channel are you pulling from? You Channel Entries does not specify.

Cheers,

{exp:channel:entries channel="pages" related_categories_mode="yes" custom_fields="yes"}
{categories}
<h4>{category_name}</h4>
<p>{/categories}<br />
       <ul id="sidebar-links"><br />
  <li><a href="http://{title_permalink}">{title}</a></li><br />
 </ul><br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

I still get nothing in the h4. Nothing even shows up in the source.

Hey there skodaminotti,

Do you have any entries in the pages channel and do those entries have any categories assigned to them?

Cheers,

Yes I have entries in that channel and have them assigned to categories. For instance, this page http://financial.skodaminotti.com/insurance-calculators
shows all the pages entries as links in the sidebar.

Hey there skodaminotti,

I would like to get a look at what’s going on.

Please be on the lookout for an email from EllisLab.

Cheers,

Shane,

I just replied to that email. Thanks.