[material-theme] how to display category of a blogpost inside the blogposting

[horstjens]

Using the material theme with nikola, i struggle to understand how to display the category of a blogpost automatically (next to the automatic-generated list of tags) in a blogpost.

I understand that i can link from the navbar to the category overview page to display all tags and all categories, but i want that

• when displaying one single blogposting - the category of this blogposting is displayed alongside the tags. Do i miss one setting in conf.py like "show category in blogpost" ?

[Kwpolska]

That’s not a conf.py setting, but you can easily implement this on your own by changing the post.tmpl template (look at the html_tags macro for an example on how to format it, the category name should be available in post.meta["category"]).

[horstjens]

Thank You @Kwpolska ! I was able to code the desired effect for my blog's default language, but now i struggle to make the link aware of a translated language.

I did this (main language is "de") inside the file post.tmpl: `

category: {{ post.meta('category') }} 
<div><a class="reference" href="/categories/cat_{{ post.meta('category') }}/"> <i class="mdi-action-done"></i>{{ post.meta('category') }}</a></div>

{{ helper.html_tags(post) }}
{{ helper.html_pager(post) }}
</nav>`

It works fine for default language blogpostings, but when i see an into English (en) language translated blogposting, the hyperlink should have an "/en" prefix:

<a href="/en/categories/cat_{{ post.meta('category') }}">

But he has not.

How do i correctly link to the translated category?

In my conf.py, i have set the option CATEGORY_TRANSLATIONS_ADD_DEFAULTS = True

[Kwpolska]

You can use the _link function. This should work (untested):

<a href="{{ _link('category', post.meta('category'), lang) }}">{{ post.meta('category') }}</a>

[horstjens]

Thank you @Kwpolska, it worked !