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#1 2008-04-09 06:02:54

fangonk

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Category Info

Can anyone think of a way to output stats on an article category? Number of articles in a specific category, last post in a category, etc… I can’t seem to find any specific tags for these sorts of stats. While I can think of a few ways to do some of these things, they are all pretty complicated, so I am curious how other people would go about it.

#2 2008-04-09 07:07:21

jakob

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Re: Category Info

There are several plugins that return the article (whatever) count for a category – see the txp resources. For the last post in a category I would use article_custom in conjunction with category="mycategory" and limit="1". You could additionally use if_different as described in this FAQ article on making an archive to loop through categories.

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#3 2008-04-09 08:49:52

colak

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Re: Category Info

fangonk wrote:

Number of articles in a specific category

mdn_count

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#4 2008-04-10 06:15:49

fangonk

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Re: Category Info

Yeah, those work pretty well. Thanks.

#5 2008-04-11 03:14:12

nabrown78

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Re: Category Info

I think you can do that with rss_suparchive as well, but perhaps it’s overkill.