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juggledad Sep 29, 2009 07:26 PM

HowTo:a widget listing a category name as the title and entries for the children
 
Let's say you have several categories 'Books', 'Toys', and 'Clothes' and you want to have sub-categories under each, like this:
books->fiction, nonfiction, biography
toys->board games, card games, sports
clothing->mens, womens, children

now what you want in the sidebar is three sections

BOOKS <- NOT a link
fiction <- link
nonfiction <- link
biography <- link

TOYS <- NOT a link
board games <- link
card games <- link
sports <- link

CLOTHING <- NOT a link
mens <- link
womens <- link
children <- link

Here is how you can do this
1) get and activate exec-php plugin (http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/)
2) setup your categories and subcategories
3) get the ID of each parent category (dashboard->Posts->Categories->Edit then look at the HTML address in the BROWSER window - the last part is '..&cat_ID=4' - in this case '4' is the ID of this category
4) Add a text widget for each parent category and make the title the name of the parent (i.e 'BOOKS', 'TOYS', "CLOTHING'
5) add the following code to the 'text' part of the widget making sure the number matches the parent category ID
HTML Code:
HTML Code:

<?php echo wp_list_categories('child_of=4'); ?>
That should do it, you will have a list of the parent category and all it's children, but only the children will have links.

cfibanez Apr 30, 2010 02:30 AM

Thanks. I'd like to do this for displaying collections of links in the right sidebar. Say category Jazz (not a link) --> subcategory Podcasts (not a link) --> TheJazzSession (link), Jazzklubb Fasching (link), ECM Records (link).

How can I do this?

juggledad Apr 30, 2010 05:06 AM

What version of Atahualpa and WP?
What is your url?

what part of the instructions did you have problems with?

cfibanez Apr 30, 2010 05:18 AM

Thanks.

Atahualpa is 3.4.6. Wordpress is 2.9.2.

url is http://carlosibanez.se

I understand the instructions for setting up categories of posts. I would like to do the same with the blogroll of links to external addresses. See e.g. right bar in url above.

juggledad Apr 30, 2010 06:13 AM

well you can try. Use the 'wp_list_bookmarks() function (for reference see http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_...list_bookmarks)

HTML Code:

<?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&category_orderby='name'&category_before=&category_after='); ?>

kdellama May 15, 2011 06:48 PM

Hello - thanks for the great info. I tested this out in my blog and it worked great. The only thing I would like to change (if possible) is the inclusion of the text "Categories" under each section. You can check out the site at http://socalhiker.com . Thanks again.

Ken

juggledad May 15, 2011 07:25 PM

add in '&title_li=' so you have
HTML Code:

<?php echo wp_list_categories('child_of=4&title_li='); ?>
you may have t play with some css to get the list to look the same

kdellama May 16, 2011 07:56 PM

Thanks! Looks much better now.

Hody Apr 2, 2012 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juggledad (Post 65523)
add in '&title_li=' so you have
HTML Code:

<?php echo wp_list_categories('child_of=4&title_li='); ?>
you may have t play with some css to get the list to look the same

Can this be achieved without the above mentioned plugin. I would like to add one link as last entries to my categories bar (bar2) - I just need to to kinda create the Entry and add the URL of the link somehow?

juggledad Apr 2, 2012 08:18 AM

You have to have the plugin.


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