Filtered Category Large Icon search screen.

Hi,
sorry but i am not sure what are you trying to do? Can you explain a bit more clearly? To what shortcode and from where do you want send the parent category?

Menu/Navigation
1. Listings Page : Advertisements for Materials for sale or need.
2. Directory Page : Advertisements for Vendors / Authors who list Items in listings.
3. Premium Ads Page : Advertisements in restricted categories that are paid for.

Category Structure
Listings
rock
dirt
concrete
…
Directory
joes trucking
tims trucking
ABC Construction

Premium Ads
ACME Supply
Construction Union
Tractor Supply Company

The short code [adverts_categories] resulting screen uses the large icons for categories to display a linked category icon screen. on each above page we only want the children categories to display.

In my mind I would like to send a parent category as a parameter to [adverts categories] short code. That would cause it to filter the resulting page to only show the children categories large icons of the parent category sent.

Thanks for your assistance.

The site in question is : https://www.MaterialListingSolutions.com

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by mocaveman.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by mocaveman.

Hello? I hope my second description was sufficient information. Please advise.

Hi,
so basically, when clicking on one of boxes in [adverts_categories] you would like to see the list of sub-categories inside this category in the same layout as the [adverts_categories] is using?

If so then i am afraid this is not really possible to do that at least not without customizing the original WPAdverts source code.

Specifically, you would need to change:
– shortcode_adverts_categories() function in wpadverts/functions/shortcodes.php
– the wpadverts/templates/categories-top.php

Note that the changes you will make in the original files will be overwritten on each WPAdverts update.

Sounds like current code will now allow. You almost got what I wanted. I don’t want to recursively travel down the tree from parent to child categories. I want to send a Parent category to [adverts_categories] and have it display only the children categories. Is this a code change I can make with child pages so they survive WPAdvert Updates?

If i understand correctly then yes, these are the files to change.

By using child-templates (as explained here https://wpadverts.com/documentation/child-themes-and-templates/) you can avoid having a categories-top.php file overwritten, but the changes in shortcodes.php will be always overwritten on WPAdverts update.

One other option would be to make your own shortcode based on the [adverts_categories] shortcode, this would require some PHP knowledge but you would have a shortcode working exactly the way you would like it to and the WPAdverts updates would not delete your new shortcode.

Thanks, I will apply my basic PHP knowledge and see if I can’t accomplish this.