How to link to category list in a different directory

How about manually? Just type in the link to wherever you want it.

<a href="/wordpress/index.php?cat=42">Category Name</a>

You can learn more about manual linking on Linking Posts, Pages and Categories on the Codex.

For now that is how I am doing it, but I don’t want to have to hard code everytime a cat is added.

Thanks!

This is the very round about way I did it, for now…

1) I created a php page with the code to list the cats & pages:
<?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name’); ?>
<?php wp_list_pages(‘exclude=2,12,14,15&title_li=’); ?>

2) Make it a template page called sidebarmenu by adding this to the top:
<?php
/*
Template Name: sidebarmenu
*/
?>

3) Create a page in WP. In page template options choose the sidebarmenu template

4) Include that page in the side bar using the full url to the page

Here are some hints:
* you have to have the include_page and the run_php plugins for it to work.
* if you have an specific pages to include or exclude remember to update the template page

Wow, it took a lot longer to figure it out that those few lines suggest! But now it sort of does a “triple update” –
the categories update, which updates the page with php which updates the menu of sidebar on the nested blog.