Here is the front page of my site . The "Discussion #1" item to the bottom right is a blog. On the front page I want to display the category to which it belongs, "Research Blog." However, I do not want to display the category for the "Books" article as it's parent category is "Uncategorized."

Thanks in advance,
A. Wayne Webb

Hello Wayne,

Please enable right clicking in your site.

Sorry about that Krikor and it is deactivated.

Safest way to achieve this is to use K2 Content modules if you do not want to edit each item's params seperately.

Since I will be copying future blog entries from a template, it would likely be preferable to set each blog article itself. Set it up in the template and then copy it to a new blog entry.

So, how do I go about showing the "Research Blog" (category name) on the front page?

Thanks kindly,
A. Wayne Webb

You cannot do that directly to your template since in multi-category menu items, only one template will be loaded.

On the other hand you can achieve this by setting the params on each item (item view in category listings).

Krikor Boghossian wrote: You cannot do that directly to your template since in multi-category menu items, only one template will be loaded.

On the other hand you can achieve this by setting the params on each item (item view in category listings).

Okay, so I changed the setting Item view options in category listings > Category from Inherit from category to Show. I did that both for the K2 item and for the K2 category. In the K2 category I made the change in both Item view options and Item view option in category listings.

I each time cleared the site cache and the browser cache.

No need to edit the category as well. For the frontpage you can just edit that specific item.

I can see Published in Research Blog now under the Discussion #1 item.

Krikor Boghossian wrote: No need to edit the category as well. For the frontpage you can just edit that specific item.

I can see Published in Research Blog now under the Discussion #1 item.

Ahh, now I see the confusion between us. :cheer: Yes, "Research Blog" is listed under the K2 "Discussion #1" item. What I am going for is for the Research Blog category only, to have the category title appear above the date and time line of Discussion #1.

Cordially,
A. Wayne Webb

Aha! Ok,

That is a bit more complicated. You have to edit the category_item.php file.

This little snippet is the cateogry title

Locate it and move it above the date which you will find by looking for this comment <!-- Date created -->

As for where to find these files and how to override them you need to read this post:
getk2.org/documentation/tutorials/174-templating-with-k2-and-the-concepts-of-sub-templates