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Adding stops content from showing
I’ve just updated a site from 2.7.2 to 2.7.10 and I’m having problems with categories in a blog posts listing. Here is the template:
<perch:categories id="categories" set="blog">
<article class="hentry <perch:category id="catSlug" type="slug" />">
<header>
<h2>
<a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" type="hidden" />" rel="bookmark" class="entry-title">
<perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" label="Title" required="true" size="xl autowidth" order="1" />
</a>
</h2>
<p class="published">published <perch:blog id="postDateTime" type="date" label="Date" time="true" format="%d %B %Y" divider-before="Meta information" /> </p>
</header>
<img src="<perch:blog id="image" type="image" width="320" height="320" crop="true" label="Image" order="4" />" alt="<perch:blog id="postTitle" />" />
<div class="description entry-content">
<perch:blog id="excerpt" textile="true" />
</div>
</article>
</perch:categories>
If I take out the <perch:categories> tag the content displays, but with the tag it doesn’t show anything.
Here is the output from diagnostics:
Perch: 2.7.10, PHP: 5.5.17, MySQL: 5.5.38, with PDO
Server OS: Darwin, cgi-fcgi
Installed apps: content (2.7.10), assets (2.7.10), categories (2.7.10), perch_blog (4.5.4), perch_events (1.9), perch_forms (1.8.2)
App runtimes: <?php $apps_list = array( 'content', 'categories', 'perch_blog', 'perch_events', 'perch_forms' ); ?>
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch
PERCH_PATH: /Users/TwoLittleFishes/Dropbox/sites/annesleyfelley-pc.org.uk/perch
PERCH_CORE: /Users/TwoLittleFishes/Dropbox/sites/annesleyfelley-pc.org.uk/perch/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /Users/TwoLittleFishes/Dropbox/sites/annesleyfelley-pc.org.uk/perch/resources
Image manipulation: GD
PHP limits: Max upload 32M, Max POST 32M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 32M
Resource folder writeable: Yes
SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /Users/TwoLittleFishes/Dropbox/sites/annesleyfelley-pc.org.uk
HTTP_HOST: annesleyfelley-pc.local:8888
Why is the whole lot wrapped with categories tags? You should just use those for category output.
I was following the example from https://docs.grabaperch.com/docs/categories/template-tags/ where the whole block is wrapped in the categories tags.
What I previously had was:
But I was having trouble with the opening article tag not being displayed.
Where should the <perch:categories> tags be?
I would do this:
Then you'll get a class for each category applied.
Thanks Drew,
I’m still not getting the category slug though.
Could there be anything odd caused by the blog initially being set up with a version of Perch before 2.6 when categories was added to core?
No, as long as your categories are in the
blogset and are otherwise functioning fine.