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1. catzavencu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   1. I'm tring to list categories in my header. But i don't want to show child categories and at the same time i want
   to show empty categories, since are parents to other categories. If i use "include" or "exclude" parameters it doesn't show empty categories. I tried "hide-empty=0", doesn't work.
   2.Suppose I have the categories:
   Activities
   Summer
   Winter
   Photo
   Black&White
   Mountains
   Rivers
   I have a template for Activities where i want to list child categories links with description. I tried this:

   '<?php wp_list_categories('include=5&title_li='); ?>
   <?php echo category_description(5); ?>
   <?php wp_list_categories('include=6&title_li='); ?>
   <?php echo category_description(6); ?>'
   where 5 and 6 are the "Summer" & "Winter" category ids. But instead of the category name it only shows flat "No categories"

   Any help is very much appreciated, Victor

2. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   hide_empty=0 does work, just make sure you spell it correctly. That's an underscore between hide and empty, not a dash/minus character.

3. catzavencu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you Otto.
   My second question wasn't very explicit i guess. "Summer" (id 5) and "Winter"(id 6) are child categories of "Activities" and i want to list them on the "Activities" template page, both with description or better, with latest post excerpt in sub-category.
   I put this in "Activities" category template
   <?php wp_list_categories('include=5&title_li='); ?>
   <?php echo category_description(5); ?>
   <?php wp_list_categories('include=6&title_li='); ?>
   <?php echo category_description(6); ?>
   but it shows only the category description. Where the category link should be i only get "No categories".

4. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The "No categories" message means that it didn't find category 5 or 6, or those categories were empty and you did not specify hide_empty=0.

5. catzavencu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I used this
   <?php wp_list_categories('include=5&hide_empty=0'); ?>
   and i have posts in category 5. Still "no category" comes up.

6. yoshi
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   try this:

   <?php wp_list_categories('include=5&hide_empty=0&hierarchical=0'); ?>

7. catzavencu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It's working. Thank you both Otto and Yoshi.

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