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I started a blog a while back, I’m not sure if EE was able to use mutliple category group per blog then or not, but I just had one category group for this blog and the number of categories is getting very, very long.

What I’m looking to do is break off a few of these categories into their own groups (primarily when it doesn’t pay for the so-called “top-level” to have its own category).  I realize this will probably take some manual db work.

What I’m wondering is mostly this:
- Is it possible to show just the latest 20 used categories?  (doesn’t seem possible from the categories doc, but I thought I’d ask)

Now that it’s possible to have custom category fields, I’m going to use it to have a name and display name, for nicer urls or even duplicate named categories (and it should be lighter on the system not replacing the dashes like I do).  Just want to make sure this will work.
Instead of what I have now:

<a href="http://{path=blogname/index}">{exp:replace find="-" replace=" "}{category_name}{/exp:replace}</a>

Something like this:

<a href="http://{path=blogname/index}">{category_name_display}</a>

I’m just getting around to installing the wiki and photo gallery modules, two things I’ve wanted to do for a while.  Can categories in either be linked to weblog categories?  I’d love to display the latest photos or snippets of wiki info on correct category pages.

Random question just coming to me: is the photo gallery site-specific if you have the multisite manager installed?  I’m just about to install that as well (currently converting from the “old” method to the newer, supported method).

Thanks to anyone who lends a brain.

Ok, I’m going to update my own post here as an fyi to anyone reading or finding this later.

To anyone upgrading to 1.6: you don’t need to use a custom category field for neat urls, it’s in there already.  I don’t know how I missed it on the new features list, but I did, and I’m certainly glad I found it now.

Only thing to watch out for: if you edit an old category the url will automatically be updated.  This includes making it (the category url) completely lowercase.  It’s great for newly created categories, but you may or may not want that for your existing categories.  Search engines can be case-sensitive, and this may be seen as a new url.  If you’re indexed well, you might want to keep your current url.

My pending questions, if anyone can answer:
- Is it possible to list just the latest used categories from a certain group?
- Can weblog and wiki categories be linked in any fashion?  Can the photo gallery categories be linked up as well? (I haven’t installed either yet)
- Is the photo gallery site specific?
Also:
- Anyone ever move categories from one group to another?  Is anything besides changing the parent id needed?