This Article shows you how you can access Categories' fields on any Liquid Page -If you're beginning to develop with Categories, start here!
In this set of Articles, we'll show you the Liquid syntax needed to get the most out of Categories on the Front End. This time we'll look at the Categories Object. This makes information about your Site's Categories available via Liquid. It can be accessed in any Liquid file on Siteglide. We'll cover:
The following Liquid outputs a JSON object containing the details of all Categories:{{context.exports.categories.data}} This object is a "key map" with every Category stored in key-value pairs where the key is the ID of the Category and the value is an object containing all other available fields.
As the Categories data Object is a key map, you can access any specific category by accessing the object and then passing in the Category's ID in square brackets: {{context.exports.categories.data['1234']}}
Once you've accessed the value of that Category via it's ID, you can access that Category's Fields using dot notation. For example, here we'll access its name: {{context.exports.categories.data['1234']}}.name
Other available fields are:
If you wish to display all the Categories on the Site, you can loop over them all. Inside the For Loop you can display any HTML or Category fields you like.
If you want to skip any Categories, you can use Liquid if statements and the continue tag to do this: