Category description & category classes

shedhed · #1 Mar 19, 2009, 02:52 PM

I'm trying to modify the category horizontal menu to do two things:-

Firstly to incorporate the category description under the actual category. I appreciate that this is available as a "hover" option but I'm trying to show it permanently.

Secondly I'm looking to limit the categories to 5 of my choice through the theme options (done), set them to 20% width (done) and style their colours/hover colours individually. To do this last bit I think I need individual li classes on each category so that I can style them one by one. Only the current li gets a class.

I've mooched about where this code is generated and I think it's in bfa_hor_cats.php - here's an example:-

Code:

$list_cat_string = preg_replace("/<li class=\"(cat-item|cat-item cat-item-[0-9]+)(.*?)\n<ul class='children'>/i","<li class=\"rMenu-expand\\2\n <ul class=\"rMenu-ver\">",$list_cat_string);

Now using shedhed's law of tinkering with code when you have no idea what you're doing I eventually got round to removing the pipe symbol thus:-

Code:

$list_cat_string = preg_replace("/<li class=\"(cat-item cat-item cat-item-[0-9]+)(.*?)\n<ul class='children'>/i","<li class=\"rMenu-expand\\2\n <ul class=\"rMenu-ver\">",$list_cat_string);

This ends up with with the category li's having a class, eg:-

HTML Code:

<li class="cat-item cat-item-13"><a title="blah." href="http://blah/wordpress/category/blah/">Blah blah</a>
</li>

By doing this have I broken something that I don't know about - I'm a complete php novice and lethal with it. If I have is there a way to get classes on each category?

Any help with either of the above gratefully received.

Thanks, Andy