webdemar
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Hi all,
just experienced a mayor problem with get_categories() in my themes under WordPress 2.8. The function seems to work right in any template file. But if you put
<pre><?php print_r(get_categories()); ?></pre>
in the functions.php it will return
Array
(
[errors] => Array
(
[invalid_taxonomy] => Array
(
[0] => Invalid Taxonomy
)
)
[error_data] => Array
(
)
)
In the theme options page I use a select input field to let the user pick categories. This select field is empty now due to the error.
Anybody has the same issue and an idea how to solve this? Thanks in advance!
Simon
eight7teen
Member
Posted 4 years ago #
Hey Simon! Nice to hear a voice of reason in this seemingly hopeless place... haha
I've tried posting examples and explaining as thoroughly and simply as possible... Yet the admin(s) still say it's a theme problem and not at all related to WP itself... Odd how common sense doesn't seem to prevail here.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/279179?replies=12#post-1104218
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/280256?replies=10#post-1104228
Hi,
one more detail:
It seems to be a timing thing: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10160
In my case, I'm using get_categories() to create a drop downlist to choose a category for a Featured Post blog on the front page.
Here's my work around:
I put the code into a function that's called by the function that needs the get_category() info. Now it works.
Cheers,
Chris
.. should read block not blog
Der WupperPirat,
Could you post your code or make it available somewhere? I was working on a similar solution, but can't get it to work.
Thanks,
Matt
Hi Matt,
take a look here: a bit of code
Cheers,
Chris
Just realized I was able to use a code like this:
$categories = get_categories('child_of=4&hide_empty=0&orderby=menuorder');
Now, since "orderby" only accepts "id" or "name", if you specify something that it doesn't know, it'll give you nothing.
I'm using "MyCategoryOrder" to order my categories, now this will basically leave me standing in the rain :(
