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I’m probably overlooking something extremely basic, as I just started learning EE.

I’m trying to build a portfolio for a client inside of a jQuery slider. The slider populates with thumbnails of each entries submitted. Each slider page can hold 18 new entries from the portfolio channel. The portfolio channel is divided into 5 categories, logos, print, web, video, and other.

I have also designed it so that you can view only entries from one category. By adding the value of the category to the URL I can make the slider only show specific entries as shown below.

<div id="slideshow">
           <div id="slidesContainer">
   <!-- Slide 1 -->
   <div class="slide">
             <div class="Row">
    {exp:channel:entries channel="portfolio" category="{last_segment}" limit="18"}
                 {portfolio_entry}
                      {/exp:channel:entries}
           </div>
   </div>
   <!-- End Slide 1 -->
   
   {if ?category entries? => 18}
   <!-- Slide 2 -->
   <div class="slide">
             <div class="Row">
    {exp:channel:entries channel="portfolio" category="{last_segment}" limit="18" offset="18"}
                 {portfolio_entry}
                      {/exp:channel:entries}
           </div>
   </div>
   <!-- End Slide 2 -->
   {/if}
  </div>
</div>

My problem is, once I’m viewing a specific category how do I add a conditional statement instructing to only show slide to if their are more than 18 entries in the Logos category?

Or do I need to scrap all this and start over with a new structure?

I think you can do it in one channel:entries tag

I’ve not tested this but if I understand your template correctly it should do what you need.:

<div id="slideshow">
 <div id="slidesContainer">

   {exp:channel:entries channel="portfolio" category="{last_segment}" limit="36"}
   {if count == 1 || count == 19}
    <div class="slide">
             <div class="Row">
   {/if}
           {portfolio_entry}

   {if count == 18 || count == total_results}
   </div>
  </div>
   {/if}

   {/exp:channel:entries}

 </div>
</div>

YES! This is exactly what I needed. I see the “count” part is what I was looking for all along. I’ve already put this to use in some other parts of the site as well.

Thank you so much!