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1. CodeyMonkey
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hi,

   When viewing a "Parent Category" i'd like to list the title of the "Sub-Categories" that only contain posts, i've been through documentation and can't find anythign on this, hope someone can help.

   For example:
   I'f i'm viewing the category "Portfolio". mysite.com/portfolio/

   It would Display categories like "Photography", "Design" etc etc. Seems simple in theory.

   But only show these sub-categories if they have posts within them.

   Hope that makes sense.

   Note: I don't want to have to hardcore the category name e.g . (IF category ="Portoflio") - it must be dynamic.

   Also I don't need it to be linked, just to pull the ptitles in plain text.

   Thanks.

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 7 months ago #

   When viewing a "Parent Category" i'd like to list the title of the "Sub-Categories" that only contain posts

   assuming you are in a category archive page:

   get_categories('child_of='.get_query_var('cat'));

   or use the 'parent' parameter to get only direct child cats.

   by default, it is set to not show categories without posts:
   'hide_empty' => 1

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_categories

3. CodeyMonkey
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   This doesn't work unfortauntely :(

   I'd like to have more styling over this for example, ideally i'd like:

   (Query loop here)

   <li >(Sub Category ID)(Sub Category Title)</li >
   (End Queryy)

   Hope that makes sense.

4. CodeyMonkey
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   OK, to be more specfic, I chnaged the first line of the example, to what you said e.g.

   <?php
     $categories=  get_categories('child_of='.get_query_var('cat'));
     foreach ($categories as $category) {

   But it's still pulling the title of the "Parent" e.g. "Portfolio", within the results any ideas? - Whcih it shouldn't if I want it to show only ones with posts within it. (excluding the parent)

5. CodeyMonkey
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Can someone help please, the above code pulls the parent as well as the child categories, when I only want just the "children" only.

6. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 7 months ago #

   But it's still pulling the title of the "Parent" e.g. "Portfolio", within the results any ideas?

   the code is supposed to work in a category arcghive page only. and it should not show the category of the archive.

   can you paste the full code of your template into a http://pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here?

   ideally, can you post a link to your site?

7. CodeyMonkey
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   I have a "Parent Category" which works as /category/portfolio/

   And the category is named category-portfolio.php.

   All I have inside is:

   <?php query_posts('showposts=25'); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <li data-type="<?php $category = get_the_category(); echo $category[0]->cat_ID; ?>"></li>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
   
   <?php
   $args=array(
     'orderby' => 'name',
     'order' => 'ASC'
     );
    $categories=  get_categories('child_of='.get_query_var('cat'));
     foreach($categories as $category) {
       echo '<p>Category: <a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a> </p> ';
       echo '<p> Description:'. $category->description . '</p>';
       echo '<p> Post Count: '. $category->count . '</p>';  }
   ?>

   And this produces:

   Category: Photography
   Description:Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
   Post Count: 1

   Category: Portfolio
   Description:Portfolio description would go here
   Post Count: 0

   Category: Illustration
   Description:Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
   Post Count: 1

   Why is portfolio even showing!!?

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