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I’d like to be able to display a categories’ custom fields on a given page.

I don’t really know what syntax/tags to use and I haven’t had any luck finding in the documentation.

Anyone have an example of how I might do this?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Hi bgomski welcome to the forums

Is this inside a Channel entry, or when you output a list of categories?

Thanks Rob!

Ideally the category and its custom fields would be placed outside the channel:entries tags. (or at least seem independent of the channel entries loop such that it doesn’t repeat over and over)

Is that possible?

I might be missing a key concept with Expression Engine (im a newbie) so bear with me.

I approached Custom Category Fields with the idea that I might be able to place these fields in the “header” of a layout on a given page. And with that I could make these fields editable without having to set up a new channel for something the user wouldn’t be updating very often.

I suppose I could get it done as a channel but I wanted to wrap my head around how to use these Custom Category Fields. So, thought I’d ask.

Assuming you use the standard category tag you can add custom fields inside the tag loop, by simply using the custom field short name:

{exp:channel:categories channel="mychannel"}

  <h1>{category_name}</h1>

  {if category_description}
    {category_description}
  {/if}

  {cat_custom_field1}

  {cat_custom_field2}

{/exp:channel:categories}

The docs are your friend here, see the Category sections at http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/index.html for a full list of parameters and variables.

Hey bgomski,

I am glad to see that Rob was able to help you out!

Is there anything else I can help you with?

Cheers,

Great, that’s exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks Rob!

Hey bgomski,

Glad to see that Rob was able to help!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,