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Here’s what I’m trying to do:

I have a page to list an author’s information, which is contained inside weblog “authors.” On that page, I want to have a list of their recent blog posts, which is inside weblog “blogs.” I am using the segment variable to create the author page on the fly. I have created a field author_cat in order to have the blog show only those assigned to that author’s category. How can I make author_cat appear in category=“author_cat”?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{embed:my_weblog}" limit="1" track_views="one" status="not closed" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
<h2>{title}</h2>
<p>{blog_intro_text}<br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}</p>

<p><br />
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blog_articles" limit="15" status="Blog|Blog Featured" dynamic="on" disable="member_data|pagination" orderby="entry_date" sort="desc" category="{author_cat}"}<br />
    </p><h2><a href="http://{url_title_path=blogs/blog_view}">{title}</a></h2>
<p>{intro_para}<br />
             <br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}

A couple of messy things in the architecture here. First, there’s no need to use categories if you have a weblog of authors—just add a relationship field inside blog posts where you can select from the Authors weblog. Second, if you do want to use categories as well (which I’d recommend against), then you don’t need the author_cat field as you already have the category.

These are pretty basic EE concepts so I’d recommend reading some of Boyink’s stuff for nicely-written primers.

Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction. I don’t know why I tried to make it so darn complicated!

Pet Rescue Barbie,

Are you good to go now or do you require additional help with this?

All good!

Glad to hear. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.