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'); ?> |
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? |
What version of Atahualpa and WP?
What is your url? what part of the instructions did you have problems with? |
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. |
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='); ?> |
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 |
add in '&title_li=' so you have
HTML Code:
<?php echo wp_list_categories('child_of=4&title_li='); ?> |
Thanks! Looks much better now.
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You have to have the plugin.
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