Plugin: Child Categories

Add

parse="inward"

parameter to exp:child_categories tag.

perfect, just figured that out before you made your reply. Working like a charm!! thanks again.

Can we have a varible to access the Category URL Indicator. I want the client to be able to change this without having to edit templates. So this…

{parent_category_start}
<h1><a href="http://{homepage}/category/{parent_category_url_title}/">{parent_category_name}</a></h1>

could be this…

{parent_category_start}
<h1><a href="http://{homepage}/{category_url_indicator}/{parent_category_url_title}/">{parent_category_name}</a></h1>

Can I show entries only assigned to the parent category along side the child category titles?

I have a a rather puzzling problem … i have a parent category with just 2 child categories. however, when i use the code below, the 2 child categories are shown 5 times each. As you can see, I have pared down the code down to the bone-not sure why the child category names are repeating. Any ideas>

<h3>Categories</h3>
{exp:weblog:categories weblog="clients" limit="1" status="not draft"}
{exp:child_categories parent="95" show_empty="no" site="1" }
{child_category_start}
<a href="http://{homepage}/category/{child_category_url_title}/">{child_category_name}</a>
{entries_total}
{child_category_end}
{/exp:child_categories}
{/exp:weblog:categories}

Update: looks like it has something to do with wrapping the child category code with the exp:weblog tags. if i remove it. it works fine.

Thanks for this tremendously helpful plugin!!

I’m having trouble with a nested category_id & child_categories setup. I want the page to just display all the categories in categories_group 1 if no parent is specified, but otherwise use the supplied category as the parent. I’ve tried lots of things, and have found that having both the parent and category_group parameters specified results in the category_group being ignored, so I’ve tried to work around it with a conditional:

{exp:category_id category_group="1" category_url_title="{segment_3}" parse="inward" on_failure="none"}
    {exp:child_categories 
        {if category_id != "none"}
            parent="{category_id}"
        {if:else}
            category_group="1"
        {/if}
        parse="inward"}

  ... output stuff ...

    {/exp:child_categories} 
{/exp:category_id}

but that still doesn’t work. When no category is specified I get all categories from all groups.

Any advice?

thanks

-e

Does this Plugin work in EE 2?

Is it possible to just display parents and entries attached to them?

Hi,

Use the code

{parent_category_start}
{exp:weblog:entries category="{parent_category_id}"}

Some code

{/exp:weblog:entries}
{parent_category_end}

I have a trailing comma on a list of categories and I can’t figure out how to get rid of it. I didn’t see a backspace parameter in the documentation, and applying it to the enclosing weblog entries tag doesn’t work. Here’s just the code for the child categories tags I’m using:

{exp:child_categories parent="17|18|21"} 
{entries_start}
<a href="/books/category/{parent_category_url_title}/">{parent_category_name}</a>: <a href="/books/category/{child_category_url_title}/">{child_category_name}</a>, 
{entries_end}
{/exp:child_categories}

If I’ve missed something and there’s another way to search for support on this issue, please let me know. It would be awesome to have a “search this thread” button at the top of these long add-on support threads. After awhile, they just get too big to be useful. Should I submit a feature request to EllisLabs?

Hi,

To delete the last comma use plugin Find and Replace Plus.

Thank you. I’ve installed the Replace Plus plugin, but all my tests have failed. I’m not quite clear on where I should put the tags. Here’s what I’ve got (Dog is a category name; I’m just doing this to test):

{exp:replace_plus find="Dog" replace="find"}
{entries_start}
<a href="/books/category/{parent_category_url_title}/">{parent_category_name}</a>: <a href="/books/category/{child_category_url_title}/">{child_category_name}</a>, 
{entries_end}
{/exp:replace_plus}
{/exp:child_categories}

I suppose to remove the trailing comma I would use something like this?

{exp:replace_plus find="$," regex="yes"}

Hi,

You should wrap exp:child_categories tag with exp:replace_plus tag:

{exp:replace_plus find="Dog" replace="find" parse="inward"}

{exp:child_categories}

{entries_start}
<a href="/books/category/{parent_category_url_title}/">{parent_category_name}</a>: <a href="/books/category/{child_category_url_title}/">{child_category_name}</a>,
{entries_end}

{/exp:child_categories}

{/exp:replace_plus}

When I make the changes you suggest, the tags don’t parse and I get this:

Category: {entries_start} {parent_category_name}: {child_category_name}, {entries_end} {/exp:child_categories}

I’ve copied more of the template code I’m using below, with your suggestions. I didn’t see mention whether PHP needs to be turned off or on in the template for this plugin to work. Perhaps the location of the weblog entries tag affects it? I don’t really know what else to try.

<div class="entriesbot">
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="books"}
<div class="book">{exp:imgsizer:size src="{cover-img}" width="50" alt="{title}" class="book-img"}</div>
<h2>{title}</h2>
<div class="book-details">
<strong>Author</strong>: {author-first} {author-last}

<strong>Publication Date</strong>: {book-date format="%F %d, %Y"}

<strong>Length</strong>: {book-length} pages

<strong>Category</strong>: 

{exp:replace_plus find="Dog" replace="find" parse="inward"}

{exp:child_categories}

{entries_start}
<a href="/books/category/{parent_category_url_title}/">{parent_category_name}</a>: <a href="/books/category/{child_category_url_title}/">{child_category_name}</a>,
{entries_end}

{/exp:child_categories}

{/exp:replace_plus}

<strong>From the Publisher</strong>: {book-desc}

</div><!--end book-details div-->
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</div><!--end entriesbot div-->