Just show one category

Seen “Show Categories” ?
https://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/category/show-categories/

Hi podz,
The plugin is no longer available on Kitty’s site, and try as might I cannot for the life of me find it in the Plugin repository. Sorry if I’m missing something obvious….

I’m having the same problem with the Plugin Repository.

Me too … just tried looking for this.
I got some stuff out of there the other day so it’s not all bad.

Try this:
https://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/downloads/showcategories.zip

Thanks for this ppl..

none of the above links goes to any download page, page not found.

https://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/front-page-cats/trunk/front_page_cats.php

Whenever I tried that, I received the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_filter() in /home/ashadeof/public_html/wp/test.php on line 62

If I removed the line in question, I received an entirely white page.

What am I doing wrong?

My first solve on WP!!!

Ok, ashadeofgrey:

In that file that is listed above, you will look for this section of the file:

function fpc_where($where) {
// Change this to the categories you want to show on the front page.
// Example: $cats_to_show = ‘1 2 3 4’;
$cats_to_show = ‘1’;

Keep in mind the code listed above is the original, without your changes. Now refer to your Manage-> Categories-> (in WP 1.5).
Each category has an ID number. Thi is the ID number for which this file is referring.

For example: If you have category IDs 4, 7, 12, 25, 80 and you only want category id 4 to show on your Main page (index.php) then you will edit this line to appear this way: $cats_to_show = ‘4’;

Refresh your page and you will only see category 4 posted on the index.php file.

I hope that helps you. It worked for me.

I’m using this plugin – great idea! – but have the problem that it only works with ID numbers below 10. The moment I have 2 digit numbers in the listing, it will no longer work and list all categories. I tried separating by comma, but it will again not show correctly, for example:

1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 will work fine

but : 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 17 19 20 21 will also show category 12 and 18 which I don’t want to show

and : 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9,10,11,17,19,20,21 will show category 21 but not 17 etc.

any idea how to fix this problem?

Oddly enough : ‘1 2 3 17 4 5 6 7 8 9 ,11 ,20 ,21 ,10 ,19’; seems to work (moved the 17 further to the front in the listing and comma/space further back to the listing. Doesn’t make sense to me though, why like this and not otherwise. It actually does not seem to be as much as the 2 digit numbers but rather if I list more than 10 ID’s. Is there a cleaner solution than my ‘shuffling around until it seems to work’? Thanks for any input.

Personally, I’d like to see a change to the WordPress Admin Panel for this. What I’m suggesting is that when it comes to links, I can choose to make them “visible” or not. I don’t see why this same functionality couldn’t be added to the Category panel. Perhaps the Shuttle developers are already looking at this.

Well, there IS a definite bug in it when choosing which categories to show. I just can’t get it to show all the categories which I enter into the $cats_to_show line.

Is there a way to have just ONE NEGATIVE category, i.e. “show all but NOT this one on the front page” ?

I need to clarify what I found. The problem is that if I select a parent category to show, it will automatically show all children categories too, what I did not want.

My solution was to move the offending child category under another parent category.