http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support User Favorites: abietto en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:14:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-478014 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:15:14 +0000 sithicus 478014@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>It's in the WP wiki - you can display the subcategories using:<br /> wp_list_cats('child_of=#')<br /> where #=main category # (not child category #)<br /> This will display only the children of the specified category, but not the main category itself.</p> <p>In response to this:</p> <p>Is there a way to auto detect what category it is in so we don't need to create x number of category pages? X being the number of categories? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/49561#post-348203 Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:23:45 +0000 textfield 348203@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Were you ever able to find a solution for this? I am looking for the same thing for my categories... </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-287567 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:20:17 +0000 stew278 287567@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm trying to use this plugin to get an entry (which is a photo) to post as a background image (running a photoblog). Having no luck so far ... wouldn't mind somebody's interest in helping out. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-286061 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:31:14 +0000 3stripe 286061@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Abietto, I gave up on this I'm afraid, couldn't even get any answers from the plugin author :-( </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-281883 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:20:13 +0000 abietto 281883@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I have the very same problem, sadly.<br /> In my website I have a section of static pages regarding reviews, tales, long articles and such. In the review section I want to have in the sidebar (through a different page template and a different sidebar template) a box containing information regarding the movie or the book I'm reviewing. The point is: c2c_get_custom DOES NOT work OUTSIDE the loop, and the c2c_get_recent_custom shows only the most recent entries in a custom field. In this way, if I submit Review1 with, let's say "Director: Steven Spielberg" and save, it shows just fine. But if I submit Review2 with "Director: John Woo", it will show this last entry in the Review1 page too.<br /> How can we use this plugin to have individual custom fields values for each page? Is it possible? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-273002 Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:24:09 +0000 3stripe 273002@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>This has proved much harder than I imagined, sadly.</p> <p>For anyone else trying this, you might find my solution easier - just use the excerpt field to hold any extra information for your post (date/location etc) - as it is much easier to use this in the loop than custom fields! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/49561#post-272331 Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:57:53 +0000 abietto 272331@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi!<br /> I downloaded and installed the plugin Navigo. It lets you display only children of a particular page, while all the other sub-pages collapse. Say, if you have</p> <p>Articles<br /> -Music<br /> -Movies<br /> Reviews<br /> -Music<br /> -Movies</p> <p>and you go see the "movies reviews" page, you will see:</p> <p>Articles<br /> Reviews<br /> -Music<br /> -Movies<br /> --Actual pages of movies reviews</p> <p>While if you go to Music Articles page, you'll see</p> <p>Articles<br /> -Music<br /> --Actual music articles<br /> -Movies<br /> Reviews</p> <p>That's great! And it was exactly what I was looking for. The point is, I would like to have this too for my categories and sub-categories tree, but as far as I can see and read out there, there's no way to do it. I mean, with "child_of" and "exclude" you can fine tune the display of the various sub-categories, but the point is: how can I add code to the cats showing in the sidebar in the template, so that it shows only the MAIN list of categories and the CHILDREN of the category (or sub-category) selected, without having to edit every single sidebar in every single page?</p> <p>Let's say you have this category tree:</p> <p>Blog<br /> News<br /> -Music<br /> -Movies<br /> Plug<br /> -Cool sites<br /> -Other blogs</p> <p>And let's say you are in the main homepage. I would like to show only</p> <p>Blog<br /> News<br /> Plug</p> <p>But if you select the "News" category and you go to that page, I would like to show:</p> <p>Blog<br /> News<br /> -Music<br /> -Movies<br /> Plug</p> <p>And so on. Can anyone of you help me understand how to achieve that? Can you use the internal variable '$cat_ID' somewhere or there is any plugin available to do that?</p> <p>Thank you very much in advance!</p> <p>-abietto- </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-271616 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:29:20 +0000 3stripe 271616@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Yes of course, I'm not that stupid... but I didn't explain too well, so sorry for that.</p> <p>Ok here's the science bit. </p> <p>'c2c_get_recent_custom' seems to just pull out the most recently used words in that custom field... so in my case it just spits out a couple of recent entries into that custom field, without relating them to any post...</p> <p>"c2c_get_recent_custom(), as you know, works outside the loop, but in so doing it isn't associated with any particular post. It gets the recent occurances of custom fields."</p> <p>i'm gonna look for another plugin in case there's an easier way forward here :-) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-271026 Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:10:23 +0000 logista 271026@http://wordpress.org/support/ <blockquote><p>Use the function c2c_get_custom somewhere inside "the loop" and/or use the function <strong>c2c_get_recent_custom</strong> outside "the loop"; use 'echo' to display the contents of the custom field; or use as an argument to another function </p></blockquote> <p>Have you tried <code>c2c_get_recent_custom</code>? What happens? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-271011 Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:39:50 +0000 3stripe 271011@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>This is proving tricky (mainly because I'm stupid haha). </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-269435 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:26:23 +0000 3stripe 269435@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Heheh I got that bit moshu, but I can't work it out at all in the context above I'm afraid, so just wondering if anyone has done this before? </p> <p>I'm not even sure if the plugin will do what I need it to in this case... </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-269316 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:29:13 +0000 moshu 269316@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>The very first sentence from the plugin's page:<br /> <em>Easily retrieve and control the display of any custom field values/meta data for posts, inside <strong>or outside</strong> "the loop". </em> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/48932#post-269306 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:59:52 +0000 3stripe 269306@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hello there!</p> <p>I'm very confused by the coffee2code.com plugin to show custom field data... I'd like to use it in my sidebar to display 2 custom fields, 'Location' and 'Date(s)'...</p> <p>At the moment I'm using the following snippet in my sidebar to list recent Exhibitions, and it's here I'd like to add these custom fields, after the post_URL if possible:</p> <p><code>&lt;li&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Exhibitions&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> &lt;ul&gt;<br /> &lt;?php c2c_get_recent_posts(5, &quot;&lt;li&gt;%post_URL%&lt;/li&gt;&quot;, &quot;4&quot;); ?&gt;<br /> &lt;/ul&gt;<br /> &lt;/li&gt;</code></p> <p>Can anyone help me out on this?</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>James</p> <p>PS. I know how to do this inside a normal loop... it's just in the sidebar that's confusing me!<br /> <code>&lt;?php echo c2c_get_custom(&#39;Location&#39;); ?&gt;<br /> &lt;?php echo c2c_get_custom(&#39;Date(s)&#39;); ?&gt;</code> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-136715 Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:59:12 +0000 Lorelle 136715@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>But has anyone solved the issue of getting the children of categories to only show up when visiting that category while the rest of the children stay hidden?</p> <p>I see it asked all the time on the forum and I've been waiting for an answer. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-130170 Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:22:34 +0000 Minna 130170@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>If a (sub)category doesn't have posts, it won't show up. If that's your problem (and it's still a current issue), you can get the "effect" by using the argument 'hide_empty=0': <code>&lt;?php wp_list_cats(&#39;hide_empty=0&#39;); ?&gt;</code> or, if there already are other arguments inside brackets, you can add it at the end as <code>&#38;hide_empty=0</code> so that all arguments (something=something) are inside one pair of single quotes.<br /> And you can put it wherever you want :D Most likely in a sidebar. So, if you are using 1.5 it should/could be in sidebar.php file, or for 1.2.x in index.php wherever the div IDed menu or sidebar is </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-122573 Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:47:43 +0000 mofotronimus 122573@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>hello, I'm a complete moron when it comes to this jargon. I think i'm looking to do what everyone else here is: list subcategories underneath main categories... </p> <p>It seems like there' s a solution here, but i'm still unsure how to implement it. could anyone explain how- where to put it, so that someone as clueless as me can understand it?</p> <p> - thanks much </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-117965 Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:03:06 +0000 Minna 117965@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><a href="http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=wp_list_cats">here's the wp_list_cats tag</a><br /> but if you want to hide a category from the main page etc. that's not going to help. See <a href="http://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/catagories/show-categories/">Kitten's Show Categories plugin</a> (that's an old link but the plugin can be downloaded there, I haven't figured out the repository yet). </p> <p><a href="http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=TemplateTags">Template Tags</a>, that's the place to go looking for, er, template tags. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-117909 Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:04:26 +0000 paperlion 117909@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I can't seem to find this ref in the Wiki. Anyone know where it is.</p> <p>This is almost exactly what I'm looking for. I put some foreign language posts in their own category and want to keep them from displaying except in their own segregated pages.</p> <p>thanks. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-101879 Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:19:21 +0000 theuniek1 101879@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>It's in the WP wiki - you can display the subcategories using:<br /> wp_list_cats('child_of=#')<br /> where #=main category # (not child category #)<br /> This will display only the children of the specified category, but not the main category itself.<br /> Hope this helps someone out :)</p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-28912 Sun, 02 May 2004 16:44:58 +0000 shirasade 28912@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thank you! I do hope I only have to exclude the top-level categories, else it'll take me a while to get all the different IDs for the subcategories (took me forever to create the hard-coded drop-down menus I'm using at the moment)... But thanks a lot for your help, I'm sure I can manage this! :)</p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-28872 Sun, 02 May 2004 13:54:57 +0000 carthik 28872@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><code>wp_list_cats(&#39;exclude=1,2,3&#39;);</code><br /> if you want to exclude the categories with id 1, 2 and 3.<br /> if you want to exclude only category with id 4, use<br /> <code>wp_list_cats(&#39;exclude=4&#39;);</code><br /> If you are using permalinks, you can still find the category id from the admin interface...just hover your mouse pointer over the category names in the edit category interface, and you will be able to see the ?cat=XX in the status bar...<br /> :)</p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-28868 Sun, 02 May 2004 13:16:52 +0000 shirasade 28868@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Great, I've upgrated right away! So, how to I implement that new function now? I'm sorry, but I'm truly clueless...</p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-28828 Sun, 02 May 2004 08:18:26 +0000 carthik 28828@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Dougal has added the parameter &#36;exclude to the the function now. You should be able to get that new function with the latest version/build.</p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-28792 Sun, 02 May 2004 02:30:09 +0000 shirasade 28792@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Rec = recommendations... :)</p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-28621 Sat, 01 May 2004 09:21:39 +0000 lamb 28621@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>HmMm.. yah i would love that too..</p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-28551 Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:11:36 +0000 TechGnome 28551@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Rec = "recreational" .... I think.....<br /> TG</p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-28549 Fri, 30 Apr 2004 22:59:25 +0000 Anonymous 28549@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>What's a "rec"?</p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/4736#post-28376 Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:41:30 +0000 shirasade 28376@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I just created my first WP-run site, to run a <a href="http://thebookshelf.org">rec page</a> with it. I'm using a nightly of 1.2, because I need the subcategory function. Now I've been looking for a solution of my biggest problem so far: People need to be able to navigate from main category to subcategory, in order to find exactly the recs they're looking for.<br /> Using this bit of coding<br /> &lt; ?php list_cats(0, 'All', 'name','','',TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE); ? &gt;<br /> I can <a href="http://thebookshelf.org/staff.php">display the complete tree</a> of categories and subcategories - but now I'd love to choose one category and display only the tree beneath it. Just thought I'd ask here if someone knew how to do that, because I know nothing about php and can't write my own code.<br /> Also, sorry about probably messing up the code, but I don't know what 'backticks' are. As I said - total newbie... Thanks for any help!</p>