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1. gan35h
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   My query is on WordPress and related to categories.

   I have a set of categories for my posts: All, Cat-a, Cat-b and Cat-c.

   a. When I click on the link to my posts page, I want to show an archive for 'All'. How do I generate a link to 'All' explicitly? Something of this kind?

   <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">All Posts</a>

   b. I would also be displaying the list of categories (shown below). I would however need to highlight the current category (by default, All).

   <ul>
     <?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
   </ul>

   c. Also I would need all categories to be displayed whether they have posts in them or not.

   Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

2. tigtog
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Have you looked through these pages on the Codex already? The answer should be in there somewhere.

   Template Tags/wp list categories
   Displays a list of Categories as links. When a Category link is ...
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories

   Function Reference/get categories
   This example will list in alphabetic order, all categories presented as links to the corresponding category ...
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_categories

   Function Reference/list cats
   Sets the list to not list all the Categories (based upon further parameters), sorts by ID in ...
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/list_cats

3. gan35h
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hi tigtog,
   Thanks for your reply!

   What I have done to get part of the intended result was this:

   <ul>
     <?php wp_list_categories('show_option_all=All&hide_empty=0&title_li='); ?>
   </ul>

   The problem still remains of the current category class activation in CSS. The current_category argument only explicitly adds the category ID.

   I am unable to frame a condition that: if the page loaded is the archive of a particular category, then current-cat CSS class for that category should be activated.

   Any tips? Thanks!

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