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1. Walker
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have a post that is nested in a subcategory like:
   Cars->BMW->Latest BMW Models

   I want to display the parent categories of a post in their corresponding order as the title of the post.

   E.g: instead of showing just "Latest BMW Models" I want the post title to say "Cars BMW Latest BMW Models". I know this makes no sense to you but I am giving the car blog just as an example, my blog is about completely different thing.

   Also, it should work no matter how deep the post is located, e.g Cars->BMW->Sedan->Diesel->2010 models->Latest BMW Models.

   So is there a WordPress function to just list the Parent categories of a post in the correct order or at lest pass them to an array? I am pretty knowledgeable at PHP so you can skip the basic stuff like "go to this line", "replace this line with this". Just point me a function that may help.

   Thanks in advance for the help and regards!

2. Web Hosting India
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   use this plugin

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/breadcrumbs/

3. vtxyzzy
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Assuming that you only have one category assigned to a post, this may do what you want if in the loop:

   <?php
   $cats=get_the_category();
   echo get_category_parents($cats[0]->cat_ID,TRUE,'->');
   ?>

   Outside the loop, use this:

   <?php
   global $post;
   $cats=get_the_category($post->ID);
   echo get_category_parents($cats[0]->cat_ID,TRUE,'->');
   ?>

4. aldax
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for the link to the breadcrumbs plugin. It is exactly what I needed for my wordpress ecommerce site.

   Joseph
   

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