A question about expanding categories in the sidebar.

  • Resolved mellowtoad

    (@mellowtoad)


    18 years, 4 months ago

    Hi folks,

    I’m relatively new to WordPress and am having a problem with my sidebar. I hope that I posted this in the correct forum department and that I have worded it correctly, if not I apologize in advance. For some reason, I can’t seem to get my sidebar to list my categories in expanded form, showing it’s children.

    As an example, I want this:

    Food
    –Recipes
    –Ingredients
    Reviews
    –Beers
    –Movies
    –Video Games
    Uncategorized

    But I’m instead getting this:

    Food
    Reviews
    Uncategorized

    I’ve searched Google and this site and have found a few things, most of it has been stuff that I’ve not 100 percent understood, but nothing that has really seemed to help. Do any of you know how I can go about fixing this? Thanks so much.

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  • Have a look at your theme’s sidebar (assuming that’s where the list is?) and see if it is using wp_list_cats to display the category list.

    If it is, click that link and check the options.

    If that doesn’t make a lot of sense, paste in your wp_list_cat() statement here and we’ll see if we can suggest how to change it.

    Thread Starter mellowtoad

    (@mellowtoad)

    I tried out that link that you suggested and changed my wp_list_cats arguement to “children” and it didn’t have any effect.

    Here’s my catagory info plus some other stuff:

    <h2> <?php _e('Categories'); ?>
    </h2>
    <ul>
    <?php wp_list_cats('children'); ?>
    </ul>
    <?php if ( is_home() || is_page() || is_single() ) { ?>
    <?php get_links_list(); ?>
    <?php } ?>

    Maybe try:

    <?php wp_list_cats('hierarchical=1&children=1'); ?>

    Thread Starter mellowtoad

    (@mellowtoad)

    Actually, while testing it, I found that if I plug in “hierarchical” as the argument, it fixes it. So for all reasons, this is solved. Thanks much.

    So for all reasons, this is solved.
    Then you should change its status from “not resolved” to “resolved” (up under the title).

    Thread Starter mellowtoad

    (@mellowtoad)

    Sorry, I’m at work and it took me a bit to get back. Will do.

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