How do I construct individual category pages?

alan · 2007-07-07 15:15:02

Can anyone tell me how to go about constructing individual category pages? I see this everywhere on archive pages where category list items link to pages that contain the category heading and posts relative to the category. I figure there’s a way to do this without creating individual sections for each category.

Thanks, Alan

thebombsite · 2007-07-07 15:56:13

By default a category article list will use the default page template to render so in that template use something similar to:-

<txp:if_category> <h3 class="whatever">Category - <txp:category title="1" /></h3> <txp:article form="formName" limit="4" </txp:if_category>

There are also links to a number of threads relating to this which you might want to read.

alan · 2007-07-07 17:00:46

Thank you, works exactly as described. Appreciate the link, too.

Alan

christina.helen · 2009-05-05 03:20:17

I am trying to do exactly what Alan asked – to make a category page that lists all the articles in that category. I’m using Stuart’s code except with a listform and having no luck with having my articles show up. So far I have

<div id="content">
                <txp:if_category><h3>Category: <span id="orange"><txp:category title="1" /></span></h3>
                <txp:article listform="category_archive" limit="10" /> 
                </txp:if_category>
</div>

The title is changing appropriately when I select different categories in the sidebar (here) but no articles show up. Thanks for any help.

els · 2009-05-05 17:25:05

First, change your category names to all lowercase, capitals in category and section names are not recommended. If that doesn’t help, can you post a tag trace of a category page?

BTW you don’t need listform, if you use form and don’t specify a listform the form will be used for article lists as well.

els · 2009-05-05 17:42:43

Ah, I just noticed that your articles must be in section blog, not in section(?) categories. If that’s the case, you can’t use <txp:article /> but you need <txp:article_custom />:

<txp:article_custom section="blog" category='<txp:category />' form="category_archive" limit="10" />

christina.helen · 2009-05-05 19:49:04

I changed the category names to lowercase (and changed listform to just form) but what really helped was changing to article_custom. Yes, I had the articles in blog. Now the articles are showing up great. I am seeing an error, though, that says Tag error: -> Textpattern Notice: Page template categories_test does not contain a txp:article tag on line 504. How do I know where line 504 is and can you tell what is causing it?

Last edited by christina.helen (2009-05-06 01:13:49)

els · 2009-05-05 21:30:37

Never mind the notice. If you set production status to ‘live’ it will go away. If you really want to get rid of it, add <txp:article pgonly="1" limit="1" /> somewhere between the if_category tags.

christina.helen · 2009-05-06 01:16:06

Oh, okay! Thanks, Els, the code is gone now.

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