Categories as navigation

  • I want to use my categories as my navigation.
    I’ve worked out how to do this manually, by editing the ‘navbar’ in header.php, but whenever i create a new category, i have to manually edit the navbar.

    Can someone help me how to do this properly?

    Thanks!

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  • Category Based Navigation

    <ul id="menu">
<li <?php if(is_home()) { ?> class="current-cat"< ?php } ?>>
<a>">Home</a>
< ?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&orderby=id'); ?>

    Thread Starter mp5pongo

    (@mp5pongo)

    Where do i put that exactly?
    Here’s is a snippet from navbar:

    <div id="navbar">

        <ul class="ot-menu">
            <li<?php if (is_home()) { echo " class=\"current_page_item\""; }?>><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php _e("Home", 'structuretheme'); ?></a></li>
            <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=4&sort_column=menu_order'); ?>
        </ul>

    </div>
    Thread Starter mp5pongo

    (@mp5pongo)

    When i pasted the code you provided into Dreamweaver CS5, i got a syntax error. I had ago myself with the code you wrote and got it to work.

    Here’s what my code looks like now:

    <div id="navbar">

        <ul class="ot-menu">
            <li<?php if (is_home()) { echo " class=\"current_cat\""; }?>><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php _e("Home", 'structuretheme'); ?></a></li>
            <?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&depth=4&sort_column=menu_order'); ?>
        	</ul>

      <div style="clear:both;"></div>
    		<ul id="menu">
			<li <?php if(is_home()) { ?> class="current-cat"<?php } ?>>
    </div>

    It looks a bit messy now! If you could help me make it a bit neater, that’d be great! Most importantly, the code is now working (see https://schristian.eu).

    Thanks for your help Woodent!

    I cleaned up your code a bit:

    <div id="navbar">
  <ul class="ot-menu">
    <li<?php if (is_home()) { echo ' class="current_cat"'; }?>>
      <a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">
        <?php _e("Home", 'structuretheme'); ?>
      </a>
    </li>
    <?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&depth=4&sort_column=menu_order'); ?>
  </ul>
  <div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>

    The ul with the id of ‘menu’ wasn’t closed out (and wasn’t doing anything), so I removed it.

    Have a great day!

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