{segment_category_ids_piped} only returning one cat id

Question

EE3

first_segment = /cycling

I've added the following to a template:

{segment_category_ids_piped}

But it only returns a single category, even though 'cycling' is present in 2 category groups, and twice in one group!

Answer 1

If you have multiple categories with the same URL title, then this caveat applies:

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.

The piped var is meant to be used if there are multiple categories in the URI, so something like /foo/cat1/cat2 would return 1|2 for those two categories.