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I’m hitting a brick wall with categories.  Seems like this should be easy.

To simplify, I have a parent category with two child categories.  Say the parent is 1, the children 2 and 3.  I want to display entries in category 2, but not those in category 3.  The purpose is to display chosen categories within a monthly calendar.

I have this code:

{exp:channel:categories channel="Calendar" category_group="1" show="1" style="linear"}
  <div class="cal_{category_id}"><a href="http://{title_permalink=.">{title}</a></div>
{/exp:channel:categories}

As shown (show=“1”) I get items from both categories, as I’d expect.

I would THINK that the show=“2” would only display entries from category 2.  But it does not; it displays nothing.  If I change to show=“3” it similarly displays nothing.

If I use shown=1|2, I get all entries TWICE - those in category 2 and those in category 3.

How can I get ONLY those entries in child category 2?

Using current production version, 2.1.3 build 20101220.

From my limited category experience, parents (always = 0) you’d need to show something like

{exp:channel:categories channel="Calendar" category_group="1" show="not 3" style="linear"}

The manual states that to show children you must include the parent, so set it to NOT display one of the children instead 😊

PS. Code untested !!

Mitch, If I understand correctly I think you may want to switch to the exp:channel:entries tag and limit what entries are output by the channel. Take a look at the following link

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/parameters.html#par_category_group

But your code may look a little something like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" category_group="1" style="linear"}
  <div class="cal_{category_id}"><a href="http://{title_permalink=.}">{title}</a></div>
{/exp:channel:entries}

Also note that your code was missing a ‘} in the title permalink which (unless it was just a type) might cause some issues as well.

Hope this helps!