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Hello,

The site I am building has 6 consultation types. Each of those types has its own webpage explaining what that product entails. The website also has a Case Studies page,  with a list of past client consultations. The Case Studies weblog has a category for each of the 6 consultation types.

I am trying to display all “relevant” case study entries in the sidebar of each of the consultation pages.

Forgive me if this makes no sense, looking at the site will make this more clear:

http://if.davenportdesign.net/index.php/process/discovery

The links in the red bar are the category types. The “discovery” page is displaying ALL Case Study posts currently, I would like it to only display posts with the category “discovery”

My current sidebar code:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="case_studies_page" dynamic="off" limit="3"  disable="pagination|trackbacks|member_data"}

<div>
<h4>{title}</h4>
<p>{exp:imgsizer:size src="{client_logo}" width="40" alt="{title}" class="floatl"}<br />
            {exp:word_limit total="20"}{exp:html_strip}{client_body}{/exp:html_strip}{/exp:word_limit} <br />
            <a href="http://{homepage}/site/casestudies_single/{url_title}">more >></a><br />
        <br />
</div><br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hi Travis,

I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure you will probably want to look into the Related Categories Mode parameter for your weblog tag.

Hopefully that should enable you to do what you need?

Best wishes,

Mark

Hey Mark, Thanks so much for the quick response.

As is, my consultation pages are their own templates, each with their own separate weblogs (makes it easier for my client to manage their content). I could be wrong but I don’t think the Related_categories_mode tag will work in this context. Any advice on how to adapt my structure to accommodate related categories?

If not, anybody know any alternative methods?

Hiya,

Well if you just want a weblog tag that has entries from one certain category then you would probably be looking at using the category=”“ parameter in your side-bar tag with dynamic=“off” too.

That would probably do it for you?

Best wishes,

Mark

Brilliant!

I had dismissed this method earlier after trying it using the category name as the value in the parameter. Browsing the docs reminded me such parameter uses ID numbers rather than the name itself. duh!

Thanks so much for your help!

No problem at all.

Glad you’re set now.

Hope it all goes well for you.

Best wishes,

Mark