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Hey there EE experts,

I know this probably isn’t the best common practice but… Is it possible to generate a category menu dynamically from within a blog post?  For example, in the body field, I’ve pasted the same code that I’m using for one of my category menus…

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="ourcollection" category_group="2" show="21|22|23|24|25|33"}
  <a href="http://{path=our-collection/index}">{category_name}</a>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

However, once published, the post shows only the above code, rather than generating and rendering the category list.

Close!

You need to do the following:

{categories}
<a href="http://{path=our-collection}">{category_name}</a> 
{/categories}

Hi, thanks for your quick reply, Sue!

For some reason, the post is still simply showing the code, rather than the category list?  Here is what I’m inserting into my body field - perhaps I’m misunderstanding…

_____________

Some of the regions these authentic discoveries originate from include:
{categories}{category_name}{/categories}

_____________

Also, the categories I would like to display are actually from a different weblog than the one I’m posting too…  Perhaps this is where the confusion lays?

-Tim

I’m sorry, I missed that you were wanting to do that within a post.

Where in the post would you want to put the info? In other words, could you simply put it between two different fields?

I originally hard coded the category list into the template but now I’m using the template to for multiple pages and this category list will only appear within one of the pages that uses this template. 

I could definitely create a different / new weblog field if that would help provide a solution?

Will it cause any issues being that I want to display categories from a different weblog than the one I’m posting to?

You could do something like:

{if weblog_id == 2}
{categories}
<a href="http://{path=our-collection}">{category_name}</a>
{/categories} 
{/if}

But that involves the categories coming from a particular weblog.

Hmmm, not sure if I can go that route either because there are 4 pages within the same weblog using this template and only one of those pages needs the category list.  I suppose we may need to just break down and manually type category list into the blog post… not the biggest worry in the world.  Thanks for your suggestions Sue, I appreciate it.

Yep- I don’t love putting it in the body myself.  Might do a custom field ‘show cat list’ yes/no dropdown- use that as a conditional and put the tag itself on the template.  But if you need to put EE code inside an entry and have it parsed- you have to use a plugin- i.e. allow EE code plugin.

But I’ll admit- I’m a bit fuzzy on what all you’re doing.