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I have two weblogs that use the same category group, these categories are listed upon the homepage. When a user clicks on one of the categories, they shall be taken to a category archive page displaying the posts from my two weblogs under the one category.

I’ve been checking out the forums, user docs and wiki and I can’t think of any way to do this.

Currently, my category URLs are formed using category names, but this can change.

Cheers.

Hi Greg,
in the weblog-entries tag of your archive page, did you include both weblogs like weblog=“myweblogA|myweblogB” to tell EE what entries it may show? Then it should work just fine with category names.

Linking this way {category_name} should bring you to a page with the url “mydomain.com/mytemplategroup/cat_archive/category/eaxmplecategory/” where you can see entries from the weblogs A and B. Does it?

I’ll get back to you shortly 😊

thanks

Ah it’s so simple. Never ventured into categories before, so excuse my ignorance. I thought I read somewhere in the docs that you can only specify one weblog in the weblog=” ” parameter. Obviously not.

Cheers mate, works a charm.

*edit*

When on the category archive page, EE successfully lists all posts from both weblogs under the current category, but I can’t get it to display the title and description of the current category, how can I do this?

Thanks

Ah it’s so simple.

Great it works for you! And that´s one thing that is so nice about EE: how you can twist and bend it to make it show exactly the results you need. Have a nice weekend! Wolfram

I thought I read somewhere in the docs that you can only specify one weblog in the weblog=” “ parameter.

That’s true if you’re using the {exp:weblog:category_archive} tag- but sounds like you’re using the regular weblog tag- which is what you’d want given the desired behavior.

As to showing the category name?  If you’re on a category page- that’s a url with a category indicator in it- then you can use the category heading tag- it will go outside your weblog tag- and gives you access to all of the category info for that particular cat page.

That do the trick?

Yes it did, sorry for bumping an old post, but only just got round to this again 😊

Thanks