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I’m trying to build a link, displayed on a single entry page, which will go back to all entries in the same category. My first thought was to somehow attach the current category_id onto the end of the path in the link, but I can’t figure out how to get the category_id of the currently viewed entry. Is there a built in way to do this that I’m missing?

Many thanks.

Try the categories variable pair- it will list all of the cats an entry is in- and allow you to format them as links (with the proper cat indicator on the end of the urls).  So- something like:

{exp:weblog:entries parameters…..}
{title}
{categories}} <a href="http://{path=weblog/index}">{category_name}</a> {/categories}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

See if that does the trick.

Thanks, Robin. That’s actually what I settled on, but it’s not exactly what I was trying to do. I have the categories listed in the sidebar, but I wanted a link at the bottom of a single entry that said “Back to all posts in [this category].” So, that link would need to know which category the single entry was in, and I couldn’t figure out how to get that info.

I’d also really like a way to combine the archive and category tags, so that if someone is viewing entries in a particular category, the archive links will only show archived entries for that category, not all archived entries for the weblog. It makes navigation a little confusing if someone clicks on a category, then clicks on an archive link and is taken to all entries in the weblog.