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#1 2006-01-30 09:21:53

deronsizemore

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From: Kentucky

Registered: 2005-11-02

Posts: 324

Displaying number of articles in each category.

I have these as my categories: Business, Design, Site News, Web.

I’d like to have them display like this showing the number of articles in that specific category:

Business [3]
Design [2]
Site News [1]
Web [5]

I found this plug-in: mdn_count which I think does what I want, but I can’t figure out how to use it. I tried just using the tag by itself like so: <txp:mdn_count /> with no luck.

Currently, I’m just using this tag to display my categories: <txp:category_list wraptag="ul" break="li" />

Thanks
Deron

#2 2006-01-30 10:49:22

thebombsite

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From: Exmouth, England

Registered: 2004-08-24

Posts: 3,251

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Re: Displaying number of articles in each category.

If this is for article categories you could have a look at cbs_category_list.

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#3 2006-01-30 13:56:12

els

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: Displaying number of articles in each category.

I found this plug-in: mdn_count which I think does what I want, but I can’t figure out how to use it. I tried just using the tag by itself like so: <txp:mdn_count /> with no luck.

The plugin works like this: <txp:mdn_count category="business" />. You would have to handcode your category list to use it. Stuart’s suggestion is probably better.

#4 2006-01-30 17:58:42

deronsizemore

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From: Kentucky

Registered: 2005-11-02

Posts: 324

Re: Displaying number of articles in each category.

Thanks for that Stuart! Worked like a charm!

Last edited by deronsizemore (2006-01-30 17:58:56)