I'm using the MTRelatedEntries to show related links on entry archive pages. It works great, except I get both the top category, and the subcategory, when I only want the subcategory.

My categories are as follows:

Art
- pencil
- paint
- ink
- digital

So if I have an entry page in the "pencil" category, its actually tagged "art" and "pencil".

I use the code below (I use a thumbnail image as my link, entered into the Excerpt field, that's why that's there):

<MTRelatedEntries>
<MTEntries lastn="7">
<a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><mt:EntryExcerpt /></a>
</MTEntries>
</MTRelatedEntries>



Instead of getting just other pencil sketch links, I get everything from the art category.

Any way (aside from dropping the "art" tag from all my entries) to get it to just pull in the subcategory?

Would wrapping your entries tags in something like <mt:hasparentcateogry> work? That generally only produces sub categories. If you nest it just under the relatedentries tag, you should get the proper conditional logic.

I get an error message: <mt:hasparentcateogry> is unrecognized when I try that. :-(

Am I perhaps missing another plugin?

Ah, okay I had done a copy/paste from this page and there was a typo. Fixed it and tried again. This time it did save and publish, but instead of showing me only the matching subcat listings, all the listings disappeared.

Okay, I've poured through pages and pages of forum posts, websites and blogs to find anything that might work. I've looked into other plugins and nothing seems to be the right fit. I'm at a loss here... I may have to pull this section from my site which is unfortunate b/c I thought it really added to the browsing experience.

Anyone have any other suggestions?

Can you post your code, mt:HasParentCategory is a valid tag, it is part of the core so no plugin required.

There was a typo in the tag which is why it generated an error message.

When I found and fixed it, I was using this code:

<MTRelatedEntries>
<mt:hasparentcategory>
<MTEntries lastn="7">
<a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><mt:EntryExcerpt /></a>
</MTEntries>
</mt:hasparentcategory>
</MTRelatedEntries>


It didn't generate any errors, but when I refreshed the page ALL the related entry links disappeared.

Try changing the order of the tags to




or

Tried both of those options and the similar entries links disappeared altogether.

No other recommendations out there?