List of articles from a group of categories (->parent category)

Bongo-man · 2011-10-25 07:43:25

Can I list articles from a certain ‘parent category’ (list of articles from a group of categories)?

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All this occurs because I previously dind’t use the right name for the article sections, so that they can’t match the name of the ‘section’ of the page in which now I need to list them.
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TNX

Last edited by Bongo-man (2011-10-25 07:44:02)

els · 2011-10-25 18:06:39

Bongo-man wrote:

Can I list articles from a certain ‘parent category’ (list of articles from a group of categories)?

<txp:article_custom category='<txp:category_list parent="your-parent-category" exclude="your-parent-category" break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>' />

All this occurs because I previously dind’t use the right name for the article sections, so that they can’t match the name of the ‘section’ of the page in which now I need to list them.

It is possible to change category and section names, even if they already have articles. Though if your site is indexed well by search engines, this might not be so wise.

Bongo-man · 2011-10-26 05:44:41

Els wrote:

Bongo-man wrote:

Can I list articles from a certain ‘parent category’ (list of articles from a group of categories)?

<txp:article_custom category='<txp:category_list parent="your-parent-category" exclude="your-parent-category" break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>' />

Thanks, but what I need is the contrary: I need only articles from my parent category.

Els wrote:

All this occurs because I previously dind’t use the right name for the article sections, so that they can’t match the name of the ‘section’ of the page in which now I need to list them.

It is possible to change category and section names, even if they already have articles. Though if your site is indexed well by search engines, this might not be so wise.

All that is true in my blog.

Last edited by Bongo-man (2011-10-26 05:45:45)

colak · 2011-10-26 07:42:50

It is possible to change category and section names, even if they already have articles. Though if your site is indexed well by search engines, this might not be so wise.

You can still do it using some htaccess redirect magic.

jakob · 2011-10-26 08:36:20

Thanks, but what I need is the contrary: I need only articles from my parent category

Does simply putting the parent category in the category attribute not work? e.g.

<txp:article_custom category="your-parent-category"> ... </txp:article_custom>

If you want articles from your parent category and its children, use Els’ code but without the exclude attribute.

Bongo-man · 2011-10-26 18:36:08

Thank you, really it would be ok, but I explained all this not the just way. I have got some parent categories in my web-site and I need articles from the ‘actual’ parent category.

Then what I really need is something like this:

<txp:article_custom category=“parent”> … </txp:article_custom>

But I think there is no solution!?
Anyway, I thank you.

els · 2011-10-26 19:17:19

Ah, you need to find the parent category of the current child category? I remember seeing a solution for that. Somewhere. I’ll try and find it.

Edit: found it, smd_parent.

Last edited by els (2011-10-26 19:20:03)

Bongo-man · 2011-10-28 07:42:34

Thanks Els, thank you all very much for this amount of useful informations, but I have some little problem more, I think I will open an other post.
Thanks again

totoff · 2012-06-28 17:55:20

hello forum,

i had a similar question and got it answered thanks to els. but, as i’m not very familiar with <txp:if_different>, does anybody know how to output the resulting list grouped by parent categories?

currently i’m using this code from els:

<txp:article_custom category='<txp:category_list parent="your-parent-category" exclude="your-parent-category" break=","><txp:category /></txp:category_list>' />

thanks, christoph

Last edited by totoff (2012-06-28 17:56:12)

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List of articles from a group of categories (->parent category)

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Re: List of articles from a group of categories (->parent category)

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