Does a category set have still have to be called 'blog' to work with the Blog ap...

Sorry, I've just checked the documentation

A blog can have its own dedicated post template, category set, and additional fields can be added in the blog/blog.html template.

Hmmmm... I'll have another look over the templates I've made - try to find out what's going wrong...

Thanks Drew

Here's the solution:

In archive.php add the category path like this: 'category' => 'news/' . perch_get('cat')

                /* --------------------------- POSTS BY CATEGORY --------------------------- */
               if (perch_get('cat')) {
                echo '<h1>Archive of: '.perch_blog_category(perch_get('cat'), true).'</h1>';

                perch_blog_custom(array(
                        'category'   => 'news/' . perch_get('cat'), // Add the category path here
                        'template'   => $template,
                        'count'      => $posts_per_page,
                        'sort'       => $sort_by,
                        'sort-order' => $sort_order,

                        ));

                $posts_displayed = true;
            }

The code above displays the archived posts for the blog called news, but it's not displaying the category name in the Archive of title

'<h1>Archive of: '.perch_blog_category(perch_get('cat'), true).'</h1>'

How would I display the news category title here?

If cat is a slug, you need to turn it into a category path.

Is this in relation to my first post?

I can display the archived posts of the news blog.

I'm having trouble with displaying the category title on the archive page. I can display the category slug using this:

   echo '<h1>Archive of: '.perch_get('cat').'</h1>';

But I really need to output the title.

If the blog isn't called blog (in this case it's called news) how do I include the name of the category in the Archive of title?

   echo '<h1>Archive of: '.perch_blog_category(perch_get('cat'), true).'</h1>';

Solved

I used this in my post_in_list.html template:

   <perch:before>
      // Add perch:categories to display the current CatTitle
       // Make sure to wrap in a perch:if, otherwise this will show on the blog home page (assuming you use the same post_in_list.html template)
   <perch:if exists="url_cat">
  <h1>Archive of: <perch:categories id="newsCategories" set="news" ><perch:category id="catTitle" type="text" />  </perch:categories></h1>
   </perch:if>
   <ul class="hfeed listing"></perch:before>
    // ... rest of template removed to keep this short!

In archive.php I deleted echo '<h1>Archive of: '.perch_blog_category(perch_get('cat'), true).'</h1>';

         /* --------------------------- POSTS BY CATEGORY --------------------------- */
            if (perch_get('cat')) {
                echo '<h1>Archive of: '.perch_blog_category(perch_get('cat'), true).'</h1>'; // deleted this

Ta-Dah! :)

Thanks for this! I was struggling with the same situation. Most sites I create use the blog as News sections so I don't like the phrase blog...

Ooh, I am so close on having this set up properly, following Stephan's code from above.

I ended up making a "post_in_category_list.html" template instead of using the perch:if conditional above. So my code in the template looks like this:

<h1>Archive of: <perch:categories id="categories" set="news" ><perch:category id="catTitle" /> </perch:categories></h1>

The only trouble I'm having is that if a post has more than one category assigned, they both show up in the h1 element.

So, if I have categories Blue and Green, and 5 posts categorized as Green, and one of those also is categorized as Blue, and I go to "archive.php?cat=green", the h1 reads: "Archive of: Blue Green".

I'm really not sure how to go about getting just the one category title ("Green" in the above example) that I want in the h1. Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

Hi Laura

If you need to output the title of the category, use this solution instead.

I found the default archive template outputs the category title fine, as long as your blog is called blog. But you hit a problem when you have a second blog, that isn't called blog. I had a blog called DIY tips. Hopefully, the link above will help. Good luck!

Oh that's perfect! Thanks so much for the pointer!