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OK now i’m just trying to start over. screwing with everything. God I didn’t expect the learning curve to be this high.

- Custom category fields still not being output.

- New weblog, same categories

- Default template that comes with EE

- Named the weblog “pages” and the templates “content”

- path.php: took out the global variable setting the weblog and template group.

This is the .htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 ^(weblog|blog|trends|content|member|search|blog|management|emedikon|blog1|site|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

- Looks like a category/topic needs to be at:

http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/content/topic/business-growth/

- Path Settings: correct?

Blog URL
http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/

Comment Page URL
http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/pages/comments/

Search Results URL
http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/pages/search/

Trackback Return URL
http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/pages/comments/

Ping Return URL
http://www.medicalpracticetrends.com/pages/comments/

Do I have to specify something because it’s the second website in MSM?

I just copied over my template from the site that works and pasted it in.

Doesn’t work. WTF?

I’d lose all the mod-rewrite stuff as well as Boyink suggested and really start with a bare-bones page, add complexity and see where it goes wrong.
When using categories EElooks for info in the URL so that’s probably what’s causing the problem here. Remember: debugging is a process, first eliminate as many variables as possible.
Good luck!

OOOOOOOOOOkay

So I deleted everything, started over:

( Advice to everyone: First, Upgrade to the latest build, maybe that fixes it…  Is there an email announcement list that tells me when there’s a new build?  )

So now I do see custom category fields when I use this:

<pre><code>
{exp:weblog:categories weblog="weblog"}
Custom Field Here: {category_custom_field}
{/exp:weblog:categories}
[/code}

But that shows a big list of all of them. What if I want just the one in the URL?

To specify one I can do:

<pre><code>
{exp:weblog:categories weblog="weblog" show="33"}
Custom Field Here: {category_custom_field}
{/exp:weblog:categories}
[/code}

- where 33 is the category code.

But how about showing the info for:

/categories/management/

where management is the category?

In short, do I get the URL to tell the index template what category to show?

How?

In short, do I get the URL to tell the index template what category to show?

Glad to see things are slowly improving, hang in there James 😊
I think you need to look at the path parameter.

So according to that doc, in the template I have:

{category_name}

and it outputs an URL I expect:

blah.com/topic/management/

But when I get to it, no posts from that category show up—none show up. How do I get them to show up? Change the URL or something else?

* Note that this is the same file for the home page BUT on the home page I do show recent posts.

Another question:

For custom fields, (unless I use show=“32” specifically) it gives me a whole list. How do I limit EE to outputting ONLY that category’s? I assume I need to tell EE what category to use, but how come EE doesn’t know that from the URL?

OK, an improvement to report. But I still have the main issue:

My remaining question:
- How do I get the custom fields for just the “current” category?

- Hard-coding show=“32” works, but omitting it lists all categories. I need to tell it to use the current category somehow?

- If EE doesn’t get the category from the URL, I would expect a tag like show=”{cat_id}” ?

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What I did get to work:
Yay! (argh) The posts I expected to show up had no category assigned to them, because in this debugging process I deleted everything and started over. Then didn’t add a category.

Take-aways from this:

- Use style=“linear” in your weblog:categories tag.

- With Multiple Site Manager, MAKE SURE you are using the right blog in the right site. If you have blogs named the same you can get tripped up.

- Check that new entries have categories