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I am doing a blog and I want to show the categories at the end of the blog text, but only if there are categories assigned to that entry. So, how do I write a conditonal that would test for whethere there are categories or not? I want to wrap the following line of code in that conditonal:

CATEGORIES:   {categories backspace="2"}<a href="http://{path=blog}">{category_name}</a>, {/categories}

So, to be clear, I want the line of code above to be used only if there are categories assigned to the entry.

thanks, Rory

help?

Hey Rory,

You can use multiple category tags to display the proper content like so:

{categories limit="1"}CATEGORIES:   {/categories}

{categories backspace="2"}<a href="http://{path=blog}">{category_name}</a>, {/categories}

{categories limit="1"} {/categories}

In this example, it will only display the paragraph tag and “CATEGORIES:” if there is at least 1 category.

If you feel this out of the box solution is too clunky, you can try using BW Category Count to conditionally display your text.

Does that help?

Thanks!

I think this solution will work just fine! I won’t know for sure till I try it out tonight. But this suits my needs. Thanks!

Glad to hear it Rory! I’ll leave this thread open until you’re able to report back on if it works for you.

Thanks!

Well that worked perfectly! Thanks again. Case closed.

Great! If you have any more questions, feel free to start a new thread.

Thanks!