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Hi there,

Is there any way to limit a category_url_title to ONLY the parent, and not the children? And further more, is there a better way to manage child categories for filtering / sorting etc?

In the below code, {category_url_title} outputs the Parent, then the first few letters of a child in the URI. It’s breaking things.

[code]

        {exp:channel:entries channel="topic_list"}
        {il_{segment_2} limit="10" disable="member_data|pagination"}
            <a href="http://{path=topic/{categories}{category_url_title}{/categories}/{url_title}}">_                <div class="{blocksize}">_                        <h1 class="{categories}{category_url_title}{/categories}">{title}</h1>_                        {article_excerpt}_                </div>_            </a>        
        {/il_{segment_2}}
        {/exp:channel:entries}

Thanks!

Moved to Community Help forum by Moderator

Welcome to the ExpressionEngine forums!
Here’s a very stripped down version of your code:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news"}
<h3>{title}</h3>
<p>{categories}<br />
{if parent_id == 0}<br />
{category_url_title}</p>

<p>{/if}<br />
{/categories}<br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

You test for parent_id of zero, which means you get just the parent and not the children.

Does that help?

Thanks for the reply, Sue!

Well I’ve advanced a bit further in my problem since I first posted yesterday. Maybe you can help me where I"m stuck now?

I’m attempting to display multiple categories with 1 template, while harnessing Low’s seg2cat.
Essentially, I have 3 category groups. On a template displaying a permalink entry, the primary category is being called using seg2cat

Each entry has 2 categories assigned to it, from different category groups. The primary, then the secondary. I’m not using Children categories because there would be redundancy of the same children for each parent. On the side of the page, I’m wanting pull related articles—one set from the Primary Category ( category=”{segment_2_category_id }” ) and the other from the secondary category (?).

As such, my opening exp loop looks like so:

{exp:channel:entries channel="articles" limit="1" category="{segment_2_category_id}" url_title="{segment_3}" dynamic="no"  }

The only problem is, I can’t figure out how in the hell to call the 2nd category.

Any thoughts?

Many Thanks,
A

Since you’re using a third party solution, I’m going to move this to the Community Help forum for additional community support.