EE 5.2.3 exp:channel:categories not working, don't know why!

You need to use a tag pair for categories:

{categories}{category_name}{/categories}

Hi Rob,

{categories} only work if wrapped inside {exp:channel:entries}, I want show only a specify category, seem parameter (show=”112”) not working.

Ah yes sorry misread the type of tag!

Two things to check:

1. Add a channel=”mychannel” parameter to the categories tag
2. If using custom statuses you’ll probably need to add status=”not closed” or status=”open|mycustomstatus”

Add both channel=”” + status=”” parameter still not work. The show=”” parameter when added return blank, please re-testing.

I want to notice that show=”” parameter not working!

It’s working for me with virtually that exact code.

{exp:channel:categories category_group="1" show="27"}

{category_name}

{/exp:channel:categories}

Tried {exp:channel:categories channel="blog" category_group="1" show="27"} and that also worked.

Any chance you could have the wrong number? If you remove the show and just do:

{exp:channel:categories category_group="1"}

{category_name} - {category_id}

{/exp:channel:categories}

Do you get all the categories and is the category id what you were using in ‘show’?

Oh- any chance it’s a child category? In that case, see docs: > If you specify a child category be shown, you must also include its parent category to be shown.