Entries per Category Plugin - blojsom 3.0 - Confluence

Availability

blojsom 3.2

Description

Counts the number of entries for the categories within a blog.

Installation and Setup

In your /WEB-INF/classes/blojsom-plugins.xml file, add the following:

<bean id="entries-per-category" class="org.blojsom.plugin.common.CountEntriesForCategoryPlugin" init-method="init" destroy-method="destroy">
        <property name="fetcher">
            <ref bean="fetcher"/>
        </property>
    </bean>

You may then add "entries-per-category" to one of the flavor-based plugin chains.

Usage and URL Parameters

Context Attributes and Types

The following table describes the context attributes that are available and their associated type.

Context key	Input or Output	Type	Description
PLUGIN_ENTRIES_PER_CATEGORY	Output	`java.util.Map`	Keys are the category ID (`Integer`) and the value for a given key is an `Integer` of the # of entries for that category ID.

Usage

In looping through your categories, you can include some template code such as the following Velocity code to display the number of entries in a category:

($!PLUGIN_ENTRIES_PER_CATEGORY.get($category.getId()))