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thanks for the help, buddy.

damn, good look. works fine. I knew it (list_cats()) existed, and I had tried it, but got lost in setting *all* the variables to get to the one i needed.

the question is still there though: why would they share names, but not functionality? the codex says wp_list_cats can display only top-levels, but the code can’t.

or can it? and there’s some black-magic voodoo i have to use to get it working?

Thanks for the help, people ??

The codex was where I went in the first place, I in fact used a little bit of there code to assure myself that I wasn’t doing anything wrong, apparently, I still am.

Both the code you supplied, and the codex, won’t stop children from displaying. I even created a child of a child, just to see if that would work: it didn’t.

So far, no matter what I’ve done, I can’t get children to *not* display.

please excuse that, a simple typo, rest assured that i did not misspell it within my code.

also, that i did not mean to place this post within requests and feedback, i noticed that when after i placed it, and do not know how to get it moved.

yeah, nevermind. the include files ad to be called in index.php of wp, not the theme.

sorry for the waste of time.

I’m not sure what you mean, maybe it’s me. I’m just starting out with PHP programming.

I have a function to write some info out to the HTML page. The function is kept in a seperate file and the variable in question is kept in a third file; both are included into the wordpress file.

In the function I declare that my variable needs to be global but it’s doesn’t work: it doesn’t write out to the browser.

As for index.php: it’s related to header information, so it’s in header.php.

worked like a charm