What is the B2evo version of your blog?

Hi sorry, I thought I put that down.. 2.02 alpha 10/11/07

I am having trouble finding which PHP file I can change this in. Basically, if there is no cat= specified, i want to force cat=14 ... any ideas?

Also, I'd like to remove the "All" entry from the category list... possible?

thanks!

First of all this: The 2.0.1 version is beta and we have a more stable 2.3 version out. Please do upgrade as soon as possible and keep your blog updated in the near future. This shouldn't take much time.

To call the blog with a preset Category you want a stub file to control the flow. There is a pretty good section on that topic in the [url=http://manual.b2evolution.net/Stub_file]Wiki[/url], so read that first and return to the forum if you have subsequent questions.

Good luck

OK probably not the most elegant way of doing it, but I just added this to the bottom of _main_inc.php

if(!$_GET['cat'])
$_GET['cat'] = 14;

seems to work fine so far. we'll see how it does in the long run.

You'll throw loads of warnings in your logs if you do it like that

$cat  = ( empty( $_GET['cat' ] ) ? 14 : $_GET['cat'] );

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Thanks, I just missed your post. I'll check the wiki out now. My temp solution put warnings ont he login pages etc so i moved the code to _bloG_main_inc for now.

haha sorry yabba I just missed yours too. I need to get quicker on the refresh button before posting.

Thanks for the suggestions and I'll read up and try a few things out.

OK great, thanks for your help. I think I understand now, index.php is basically the default stub file, and you can set up certain parameters then just call the blog include php. So Yabba, I tried your code out near the bottom of index.php (before the include statement) and it seems to do exactly what I want. I took my hacks out of the inc files ;-)

Thanks both of you for your help!

OK I figured out how to remove "All" fro the list.

In:
\inc\widgets\widgets\_coll_category_list.widget.php

Replaced:

			'option_all' => array(
					'type' => 'text',
					'label' => T_('Option "All"'),
					'defaultvalue' => T_('All'),
					'maxlength' => 100,
					'note' => T_('The "All categories" link allows to reset the filter. Leave blank if you want no such option.'),
				),

With:

			'option_all' => '',

And it all seems OK now.
Thanks again!

you REALLY don't need to hack the core for that huh?

in your skins container call, just add 'option_all' => ''

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I like the way this is handled now via the Category widget...
Leave blank :)

Hm, I'm not sure what you mean by "Skins container call"

I found a problem with the forced category though... it seems like the search function now only searches category 14 and does not search any of the rest of the posts... is there a way to maintain search functionality across all posts and still only display cat 14 by default?

$cat  = ( empty( $_GET['cat' ] ) ? ( empty( $_GET['s'] ) ? 14 : '' ) : $_GET['cat'] );

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Fabulous, thanks a ton!

My girlfriend will be thrilled with the functionality now:
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Hi all.. Im using version 1.10.2, and I got the same problem! I'm not really got at .php so can anybody please tell me what I need to change/do to only show posts from a single category ? (: