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I get the impression that if you switch to Use Category URL Titles In Links you can no longer use the handy {if category_request} conditional. Is this true, and if so, is it by intention? Perhaps I did something wrong, but now {if category_request} never becomes true with my template.

It ought to work and normally does. Are you using this conditional within a weblog:entries tag-pair?

Oh, I didn’t change anything else but switch to Use Category URL Titles In Links. The site has been working fine for a long time.

After further testing, it seems my problem is really with the {exp:weblog:category_heading} tag. I created a “test” template group and basically inserted the following code within the exp:weblog:entries tags of my template:

{if count == 1}
{exp:weblog:category_heading}<h1>{category_name}</h1>{/exp:weblog:category_heading}
{if category_request}This is a category request.{if:else}This is not a category request.
{/if}
{/if} {!-- if first entry --}

If you look at this page at http://bestwebconference.com/en/software-services/test/C34 (using the old notation) you can see that it correctly generates the <h1> header for the category.

If you use the new notation like this: http://bestwebconference.com/en/software-services/test/category/reviews/ EE detects that it is a category request, but there is no <h1> header.

The {exp:weblog:category_heading} tag does not appear to work the same if you use Category URL Titles. Is this intentional?

I don’t know if this is intentional, but the exp:weblog:category_heading-tag is not supposed to be inside exp:weblog:entries but on its own.

If you move

{exp:weblog:category_heading}<h1>{category_name}</h1>{/exp:weblog:category_heading}

out of the weblog:entries loop, it ought to work just fine.

Then you also don’t need the count==1 conditional and it only displays anything between its tags if it’s a category request so the if category_request is already implied.

Thanks for your kind help, but moving the exp:weblog:category_heading tag out of the exp:weblog:entries construct does not solve the problem. The exp:weblog:category_heading tag still doesn’t detect a .../category/category_url_title/ request.

Have you set the weblog=”“-parameter in exp:weblog:category_heading?

When using the category name in URL feature this is a must whereas you can ignore it if you’re using the /C24/-approach.

Reference.

OK, now I get it, and it works fine as soon as I used the weblog parameter.

I have updated the updating instructions for EE 1.6 to include this information.

Many thanks for your kind help.

Thanks Magnus, though as a note, that parameter existed prior to version 1.6, and was always required when using the category trigger indicator in your URLs.