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So what I want to do is show, on one page, a listing of different entries and then group those into their respective categories.  This is for a library, so what I want to do is have:

Fiction
Book name, author, date entered, something else
Book name, author, date entered, something else
Book name, author, date entered, something else

Non-Fiction
Book name, author, date entered, something else
Book name, author, date entered, something else
Book name, author, date entered, something else

Audio
Name, author, date entered, something else
Name, author, date entered, something else
Name, author, date entered, something else

And so on and so-forth.

Now I can manually set that up using multiple weblog tags, but that’s terribly inefficient.  I could use the weblog:categories setting as well, but that doesn’t show custom weblog fields. Also - I need to have HTML at the beginning and end of each block of materials - so something like:

<div class="category">
<h2>Fiction</h2>
<p><ul><br />
<li>book and stuff here</li><br />
</ul><br />
</div>

Is there a ‘best way’ to do that? I’m really trying to learn about optimizing for performance and calling the weblog tag once seems like a big win over doing it multiple times per page.

Thanks for any help!

Try this. =)

Hmm - well that’s excellent.  I didn’t realize that you could nest the weblog:entries tag into the weblog:categories tag.  Very cool!  That solves the problem of manually setting up the weblog entries tags on the template. That does still call the weblog entries tag multiple times though - I wonder if there’s another way that would result in one weblog:entries call?

Thanks for the quick responses though!