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Aim
To display entries associated with a category on an entry detail page.

The set up
I am using Categories to group my Projects featured on the website. So, Categories and Projects look like this:

Housing Projects (Category)
– Project title 1 (Entry title)
– Project title 2 (Entry title)
– Project title 3 (Entry title)

Retail Projects (Category)
– Project title 1 (Entry title)
– Project title 1 (Entry title)
– Project title 1 (Entry title)

And so on.

I have set up three different page templates, following Michael Boyink’s walk through.

The index page
http://www.mywebsite/index.php/projects/
This shows a list of all of the Categories, and links to the Category List page.

{exp:weblog:categories weblog="projects" style="linear" show_empty="no"}
<li><a href="http://{path=projects/list}"><span class="selected">{category_name}</span></a></li>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

The Category List page
http://www.mywebsite/projects/list/category/housing/
This now displays the Category list, plus the Entries associated with the selected Category.

{exp:weblog:category_heading weblog="projects" }
<li>{category_name}</li>
{/exp:weblog:category_heading}
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="projects" sort="asc" orderby="title"}
<li><a href="http://{url_title_path=projects/detail/}">{title}</li>_{/exp:weblog:entries}

__The Category Entry Detail page_[url=http://www.mywebsite/projects/detail/project_1]http://www.mywebsite/projects/detail/project_1
This page is now basically showing the details from the associated Entry, but the list of associated Entries only displays the title of the entry on the page.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="projects" sort="asc" orderby="title"}
<li><a href="{url_title_path=projects/detail}">{title}[/url]</li>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

I know the problem is down to the fact that I have lost the magic category/category name from the url, and on the detail page EE cannot figure our what Category is being displayed.

How can I get around this?

Sorry didn’t read the whole of all the code you have above but I think perhaps the related_categories_mode=”“ may well help out on this one.

Sorry for not reading the whole post thoroughly but it’s been a very very long day and it’s getting late here this side of the pond 😉

Hope that helps a bit though.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Mark,

thanks for the suggestion, and sorry for keeping you up!

I should have said that I had tried this.

I think the problem is the missing Categories segment from the URL. Without this on the detail page EE is lost.

And so am I!

A