Category group and category ID from that group using Low Seg2Cat

Question

I have code which looks like

{exp:channel:entries channel="collection" category_group="5" category="{segment_2_category_id}" url_title="{segment_3}" status="open"}

I expect to retrive an entry from the channel named "collection" and with category ID# from category group ID#5, but what I'm getting is an entry (sometimes, it is based on segment_2) from category group ID#1. It looks like Low Seg2Cat is always pulling first category ID but not related to category group.

Category name/url title from segment_2 exists in another category group.

Any clue what is going on?

Thanks

Answer 1

There is a setting to restrict to Category Groups in Seg2Cat -- see the documentation. Note that, by default, Seg2Cat has this caveat:

If there are multiple categories with the same url_title, but in different groups, this extension will only return one of those. So best make sure your category url_titles are unique, or you select the relevant Category Groups in the settings so they are.

If you have the option of using another plugin, instead of Seg2Cat, you could use Cat2 (also on GitHub). Cat2 allows you to do this:

{exp:cat2:id category_url_title="{segment_2}" category_group="5"}

Answer 2

It seems the category url title's are not unique. Try making them unique and that should fix your issue as Low Seg2Cat queries the database and find the first match.