willemso

Hey Alex

thanks for the feedback. This gives me guidelines to optimize it in the coming weeks.
Now, I quickly tried it with XAMPP on a clean WP install and it seemed to work as expected.

In my case I used [show_post_categories show="catdesc" id="4"]

Are you sure that the ID is correct? I used this howto on how to find the ID I needed.

Alex,
I think I’ve found what’s wrong!
As I am not having a local install available right now; could you check the following?

[show_post_categories show="catdesc" id="CategoryID"]
The text CategoryID can be replaced with no matter what ID, but it needs to be a Category ID. I’ve linked -by default- the Post ID so that’s why it is not working.

If this works I got an extra question for you. Would it be your expectation that this code would list all Descriptions for a current post, or would you always specify the Category you need the Description from?

Hey Alex

I am sorry for the delay, I added an option to the development version.
Scroll down this page and select development version. Once downloaded, remove any existing install of SPC and use this one instead.

You can activate it by entering [show_post_categories show="catdesc"], once I’ve got some more time I will merge it into the normal “category” attribute. This will be listed in the upgrade notices.

Please let me know if all works as requested.

Hello Alessiosester

Thank you!
Today the plugin does not support this. However I plan to do some updates in the coming weeks. I will add it to my list and will add a remark to this post if I manage to include this.

Are there any specific requests for the output format?

Hi Jens,

Ok – I will add it to my todo list.

In the meanwhile I am marking this topic as solved. If any questions remain just ask!

Hey Jens

Thanks for the update about your issue!
I wil investigate it further and if I can find a reason why this happens I′ll implement a solution.

About your second question;
By default the output will be a string. You could add a linebreak as seperator and use some css to create a list when needed.
If this would not suit your needs I can add an attribute and let PHP output the array into unordered list.. but this will take some time.

It would look like ;

<ul>
 <li>Joe</li>
 <li>Jane</li>
 <li>Mike</li>
</ul>

Hey Jens,

sure, contact me here

In the meanwhile could you remove SPC completely and install the developers edition? Go to the bottom of this page and select “Development version”, download the zip & Upload it to your plugins. Activate it and try again..

Hey Jens

To be sure you have used the shortcode on a post or page with the category “business sector”?
[show_post_categories show=”category” parent=”no” parentcategory=”business-sector”]

How is the hierarchy of tour categories?
Is it like;
P1
-c1
-c2
P2
-c3

Or like
P1
-c1
-p1
–c1

Could you point me to a page that is currently using the code?

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Hello Jens,

could you clarify if you want to show the categories linked to the post itself, or categories from another post? I think I might be missing something: -)

Can we build the shortcode step by step to see where / what goes wrong?
So for instance what happens when using;

[show_post_categories show="category"]
[show_post_categories show="category" parent="no"]
[show_post_categories show="category" parent="no" parentcategory="business-sector"]

Hello Alex

what would be the hierarchy of the used categories?
Are all of them “parents”, or are some linked to 1 specific parent?

To list all categories, without filtering, you should be fine using just:
[show_post_categories show="category"]

Please let me know if this helps.

Hello Smialhe
I think I′m still confused about your request. Is this the behaviour you would like to see?

fi, a post contains 1 Parent Category and 3 childs. You do no want to show the Parent and just 1 of the 3 childs. To filter out the 2 childs you will provide the ID′s to filter?

Just checking before I would investigate the impact on my code:-)

ps, There is also a function, to filter on 1 Parent in case there are more Parents selected. This can be done using `parentcategory=”PARENTCAT”

Hi Medical Writer,
I am happy to hear your problem is resolved!

have a nice day

Hi Smialhe

It is possible to hide a “parent” category, but currently not 1 of many “child” categories.

Could you share what “type” of category you would like to hide (parent/child)?

Hello

could you say what kind of WordPress environment you are using?
I mean; shared hosting? WordPress Version? Theme name? Plugins? Show post Category version?

Is there a custom taxonomy of portfolio in use? Or just a default post?

Could you try to use the above shortcode on a blank posts-page with a Category linked, please try to add it in the Text editor, not the Visual Editor to make sure that′s not the issue.

if this does not work, could you try and use Development Version? That′s listed on the bottom of the page. Make sure to uninstall SPC first.