Categories
See the categories over to the left? There are only three of them listed. There are actually about 19 in all!
When Deb setup the new blog with Expression Engine, it was in accidentalverbosity.com/ee so we wouldn’t have to be down at all on the old one from pMachine.
After the old one was imported, I set out to move the new one to the root, just accidentalverbosity.com. There are a bunch of settings for file locations you change, and I did that, as well as copying everything to the root and the relative positions occupied to the location of index.php, and changing permissions on a couple of files.
Trouble is, the primary locations you have to change in the control panel revert right back to the EE folder. They won’t take. No matter; it all works and people coming to the original URL see the blog.
The first thing that went wrong was the categories. I added a mess of them and they didn’t show up. They are available options when publishing. They show up in the posts, like the one below categorized under both rugrats and moosic. You can click the category in a post and see the whole set of posts for the category. But you can’t see the categories in the sidebar. This makes me very sad.
I’m sure I’ll figure it out when I bother to expend effort to that end, or I’ll be able to hack it into submission or get help from the EE support/forum people, but hey, if I mention it here, someone might have thoughts offhand. Plus it makes everyone aware we have categories, which we didn’t before. I went back and applied them to some old posts, but not all. Thus the baby pictures I posted do show up under baby pictures and it’s a shortcut to see the more recent ones, and the older ones are still at http://accidentalverbosity.com/alien for now.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why your categories aren’t all displaying, if you’re using the right code and they’re all in the same category group.
I’d suggest you go to the EE support forums with this one.
Posted by McGehee on 12/19 at 01:27 AMWell, looky there! I see lots of categories! So how’d you fix it?
Posted by McGehee on 12/19 at 11:31 AMThey show up in the individual pages, for a post or a comment. Note the path to this comment page is under the ee directory, not the root. It’s when it’s not doing what I want that it shows them all.
Posted by Jay on 12/19 at 11:40 AMAh! When I saw them on this page I didn’t realize they still weren’t displaying on the main page.
Do you by chance have a “limit” parameter on your index template?
Posted by McGehee on 12/19 at 08:15 PM
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