URL item are not displaying on page.

I think you may be using the wrong tag for that products page. You may want a channel entries tag instead of that channel categories tag.

That help? If not, what’s the URL look like for the products page that isn’t working?

Thank you Robin. So I can call category within a channel?

Let’s back up and make sure I understand what we’re going for.

On the index page, that category tag should show a list of categories as links. It should take you to presumably the products page with urls like mysite.com/products/category/electronics where ‘electronics’ is the url title of the category you clicked on.

You want to then show all entries in the ‘electronics’ category- which is what putting a channel entries tag on the page would do. In a channel entries tag, for every entry you show, you can show the categories it’s in using the categories variable pair.

If you want to show a header with the category name and description in it, you would do that separately using the category heading tag.

But as a good rule of thumb, you don’t want to nest tags inside each other. Things can get confused.

Yessssss, actually what I am trying to do. But seem not to work for me. I am sure it something stupid I am missing.

Hi,

Can someone point me somewhere I can get good examples on how to use categories. I am trying to follow the blog example when you install ee demo. But it’s to confusing when I am still learning ee.

I am able to display the categories I can see the links from the category but when I want to see the full details of the one item I can’t see nothing, no title or images.

Please help me.

It might help to read over the documentation on URL structure: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/general/url-structure.html

To sort of ‘see it in action’, make a blank template called test in the site template group. Put this on it:

<a href="http://{path=">ALL</a>


{exp:channel:categories channel="blog"}
     <a href="http://{path=site/test}">{category_name}</a>
{/exp:channel:categories} 


<hr>


{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" limit="10"}
<h3><a href="http://{url_title_path=">{title}</a></h3>
{categories backspace="2"}{category_name}, {/categories}
{/exp:channel:entries}

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" limit="10"}
<h3>{title}</h3>
{categories backspace="2"}<a href="http://{path=site/test}">{category_name}</a>, {/categories}

{blog_content} 

{/exp:channel:entries}

Assuming you’ve got a default template install, that will get you a full listing, a category filter, and a detail page.

Thank you Robin for the information it was useful.