Its not showing up, because your if statement evaluates to false. It
doesn't know of ANY string "news" in the template. Thus, it'll always
evaluate to false.
I guess your issues are more of getting fundamentals with django, than has
to do with mezzanine!
On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 4:32:45 PM UTC, R.J. Jackson wrote:
>
> However if I don't put the if category == "news" part of it, it does show
> up fine.
>
> On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 10:14:10 AM UTC-5, R.J. Jackson wrote:
>>
>> Like I said I have tried working with tags and it doesn't work. This is
>> the code I had.
>>
>> {% with x.categories.all as categories %}
>> {% if categories %}
>> {% for category in categories %}
>> {% if category == "news" %}
>> {{category}}
>> {% endif %}
>> {% endfor %}
>>
>> On Thursday, November 26, 2015 at 4:03:21 PM UTC-5, Danny S wrote:
>>>
>>> On 27/11/2015 4:33 AM, R.J. Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, thank you it was helpful.
>>>
>>> I have a follow up question, lets say I wanted to do a check to see if
>>> category is == to a string, how can I do that?
>>>
>>>
>>> Why not read up on Django template tags?
>>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/templates/builtins/#if
>>>
>>> There's several examples there using both == and %ifequal, see which one
>>> works best for you.
>>>
>>> Seeya. Danny.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have tried using the if tag but it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 6:09:42 PM UTC-5, Nkansah Rexford
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps the blog_post_list.html file might be of help. In mine, I find
>>>> this:
>>>> {% with blog_post.categories.all as categories %}
>>>> {% if categories %}
>>>> ...
>>>> {% for category in categories %}
>>>> <a href="{% url "blog_post_list_category" category.slug %}">{{
>>>> category }}</a>{% if not forloop.last %}, {% endif %}
>>>> {% endfor %}
>>>> {% endif %}
>>>> {% endwith %}
>>>>
>>>> That hopefully gives an idea how to fetch a category.
>>>>
>>>> And remember, you wouldn't expect to find a category object or objects
>>>> if one isn't already created.
>>>>
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