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BW Category Count

Developer

Wouter Vervloet - Baseworks

3rd Party (Free)

97 downloads (last 90 days)

Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike Download v1.0

Compatibility

Requirements

  • jQuery for the Control Panel

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BW Category Count is an ExpressionEngine 2.x add-on that adds a {category_count} variable to the {exp:channel:entries} loop. Which show the number of categories assigned to the current entry.

Installation

Put the ext.bw_category_count.php file in ‘/system/expressionengine/third_party/bw_category_count/’, enable the extension in the CP and you’re all set.

Usage

{exp:channel:entries channel='blog'}
  {if category_count == 0}
    No categories assigned to this post.
  {if:else}
    {categories backspace='1'}
      <a href="{path='blog'}">{category_name}</a>, 
    {/categories}
  {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Parameters

show_group [optional] : The show_group parameter allows you to only count a category if it is in a specific category group, much like how the show_group parameter on the categories-loop works.

{category_count show_group='1'}
{category_count show_group='1|3|4'}
{category_count show_group='not 2'}
{category_count show_group='not 2|3'}

Download BW Category Count

EE Version Downloads Add-On Version Release Date
2.+ Download 1.0 2010-11-16 02:00 AM

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Hooks Used

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  1. channel_entries_row

This entry was created November 16, 2010, 12:14 pm.
This entry was last updated June 8, 2011, 9:27 am.

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1 Review:

Brett Burwell 03.21.13

Brett Burwell
Rating - {addon_rating_average}

Worked brilliantly for a situation where I needed to check for the existence of a category before running through EE’s native {categories} variable pair.