Expression Engine

ExpressionEngine Category for Entry

Thursday September 25, 2008 at 10:26pm

I wanted to display the category of an entry so that the end result would look like the following, where Ruby on Rails is the category: 

RUBY ON RAILS
Scaling ActiveRecord
Thursday September 25, 2008 at 10:26pm

I couldn’t find any examples, but the snippets in TextMate helped me out.  Here is the code:

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{exp:weblog:entries weblog="posts"}
  <div class="post">
    <h3>
      {categories weblog="posts"}
      {category_name}
      {/categories}      
    </h3>
    <h2>
      <a href="{title_permalink="posts/view"}">
        {title}
      </a>
    </h2>
    <div class="post-date">
      {gmt_entry_date format="%l %F %d, %Y at %g:%i%a"}
    </div>
  </div>      
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Reader Discussion

Kenan

Monday November 30, 2009 at 12:49pm

Hi,
Great plugin but I’m having trouble.
When post is just published sometimes its before 2 minutes, sometimes before 1 hour, sometimes before 0 years… every time is different time?
After few hours its OK.

Do You know what could causing this?

Thanks

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