Sub category not displaying properly

  • shooter1

    (@shooter1)


    17 years ago

    Hi all, hope someone can help – this should be easy for anyone who knows PHP – unfortunately I dont have a clue!

    I have a two level menu with categories and sub categories. I want the sub categories to be displayed when the main category is active.

    I adapted the following code from another source except it was set up for pages so I am not sure if it is correct. At present the correct sub categories display but won’t disappear when you move to another category.

    By the way Category 4 is the category I want to display the sub categories from

    <?php

    $thiscategory = $wp_query->post;

    if($thiscategory->post_parent!=0)

    {

    wswwpx_fold_category_list(“title_li=&child_of=”.$thiscategory->post_parent);

    }

    else {
    wp_list_categories(“title_li=&child_of=4”);

    }

    ?>

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    The same plugin author from where you got your Pages code… has a plugin for categories:
    https://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/wordpress/31/

    Thread Starter shooter1

    (@shooter1)

    Thanks, yeah I knew about this – but he doesn’t have anything similar for categories – I can’t find anything to help. I just don’t understand what all this means:

    $thiscategory = $wp_query->post;

    if($thiscategory->post_parent!=0)

    {

    wswwpx_fold_category_list(“title_li=&child_of=”.$thiscategory->post_parent);

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    but he doesn’t have anything similar for categories

    I hate when people talk back without clicking on the resources I offered. The link I gave you above is for collapsable categories!

    Thread Starter shooter1

    (@shooter1)

    Hi Moshu,

    I did check the link but it doesn’t solve my problem, I am already using that plug in but the site is pretty low on details about how to implement it, particularly in an IF statement. As mentioned before I have no clue about PHP and just need to try and understand this code I have.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    If no clue about PHP – you shouldn’t mess with the code.

    Why do you need an IF statement, why doesn’t the plugin work for you as is?
    You don’t “implement” a plugin. You upload, activate and use it: in this case replace WP’s category template tag with the one suggested in the readme. Done.
    What is so complicated?

    Thread Starter shooter1

    (@shooter1)

    There is no readme with the zip. I need the IF statement to make the menu work, just like the one based on pages needed an IF statement the one for the categories does too surely?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    None of them needs any IF statement.

    There is a detailed instruction for Usage on the plugin’s page. WHY do you need the IF…? I still don’t get it. (maybe I am not the only one)

    Thread Starter shooter1

    (@shooter1)

    Hi Moshu

    Perhaps I wasn’t clear – it’s just I have navigation with both pages and categories running side by side.

    Currently the sub categories display but wont go away when I move away from that category

    i.e. Category
    Sub 1
    Sub 2

    Page
    Sub Page 1
    Sub Page 2
    Sub 1
    Sub 2

    Both subs appear when they shouldn’t, it’s just the lack of complaince between pages and categories which forces me to use the IF.

    I just need a way to exclude the sub categories when the parent is not active

    Pretty sure the problem lies in this line here:

    wswwpx_fold_category_list(“title_li=&child_of=”.$thiscategory->post_parent);

    Hi,

    Did you contact me (the author of the plugin)? I don’t recall seeing anything in my mail… there’s an email address in the header of the plugin…

    Anyway… I’m a little confused by what you mean by all this… You also seem to be mixing categories and pages/posts and I’m not sure the if… else (which afterall was created for handling pages) is doing what you think it is doing.

    If the tested value is non-zero then the plugin will show the (sub-)categories of whatever that value is. If the tested value is zero it will display for catregory ‘4’.

    I suspect that you are getting non-zero values where you expect to have zero, and maybe even zero where you expect to have non-zero.

    Regards

    Rob

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