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I have a simple weblog:entries tag to retrieve news items as follows:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" category="{segment_2_category_id}" disable="member_data|pagination|trackbacks" dynamic="off"}           
    {categories}
         <div class="news"><a href="http://{url_title_path=news}">{title}</a></div>
    {/categories}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

The problem is that if one of the News entries belongs to 3 different categories, it will get displayed 3 times.  Why is this happening if I’m explicitly telling the entry tag to only pull from the defined category, (ie category=”{segment_2_category_id}”)?

Try removing the {categories} and {/categories} tag. Does that work?

That does seem to fix it, thanks!  Can you explain why though?

Your exp:weblog:entries tag (with it’s parameters pull your one entry you wanted. But when you used the {categories} variable pair. EE ran a loop of each category for the entry you had queried. Since there were three categories, you saw a link three different times.

Does that make sense?

That does make sense…thanks for the explanation!

Glad I could help. Don’t hesitate to come to the community for any other questions. They’re great when it comes to helping people.