Display List of Current Category’s Children OR Posts

  • Resolved Jeremy

    (@jeremiahhenson)


    16 years ago

    I’m developing a theme for someone, and they need a lot of category navigation. The goal is for each parent category page to display a list of its children categories. However, if we’re at the deepest categories where actual content begins, it should display posts instead of categories.

    So essentially I want to tell WordPress’ archive.php page that if is_category() and the category has children, display the kiddies. If it doesn’t, display posts.

    How do I tell WordPress to do that?

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  • This is great and I am using the snippet provided above:

    <?php // list child categories
$cat_id = get_query_var('cat');

$catlist = wp_list_categories('echo=0&orderby=id&title_li=&child_of=' . $cat_id);

if ($catlist) {
echo $catlist;
} else {
echo "Please don't print No categories";
} ?>

    But if you go to a category without child categories it prints “No categories” which is a bit lame. Mainly because I can’t work out how to intercept that output. Any ideas?

    Thanks groomedmonkey;

    How about if you want to list the “sibling” categories?

    The code works great when I’m viewing the parent category, but as soon as I navogate to one of the children the list goes away; Ideally the list remains with the current category being viewed not being displayed in the list of siblings.

    Make sense?

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