efficient category templating

Question

In the URL www.site/recipes/meat, the segment 2 is a category, so, to make this work, I use a template with the category´s name:

the category template, is named (meat):

{embed="recipes/.recipes" url_title="meat"} 

The main template, is named (.recipes):

{embed="estrutura/.template"}
     {exp:stash:set name='main'}
       .........
     {/exp:stash:set}  

So, when the category appears in the url, the main template .recipes is called by the category template. With, www.site/recipes/meat, all the entries of this category are listed.

It's working fine, but I have to create a small category template for each category. I'm curious to know if a more efficient templating way exists?

Stéphane

Answer 1

By default EE looks for the category indicator in the URL, eg www.site/recipes/category/meat, then output content based on that category url title (/meat).

If you don't want to use the category indicator you'll need to use the LowSeg2Cat addon http://gotolow.com/addons/low-seg2cat - you can then use one entries tag and one template for any category, simply by using Seg2Cat to pull in the category ID:

{exp:channel:entries channel="mychannel" category="{segment_2_category_id}"}
{title}
{/exp:channel:entries}