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1. gotdistracted
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi all,

   I'm having some troubles with what would appears to be a simple idea. I'm trying to:

   1. Output a list of child categories to the depth of 1
   2. Customise that list

   I have chosen to use get_categories due to my lack PHP skill in creating a custom walker for wp_list_categories. As I understand it I should simply able to pass 'parent' => cat_ID as an argument into get_categories for it to return child (1 level below the parent).

   I'm finding that when using parent I get no output, but if I use child_of I get all children and grand-child.

   <ul id="find-it" class="group">
   
                  		<?php $args = array('child_of' => 922); ?>
                   	<?php
   							$categories = get_categories($args);
   					  		foreach($categories as $category) {
   
   							echo'<li>
   
   									<a id="'. $category->slug .'" href="">' . $category->name . '
   
   										<span>'. $category->description .'</span>
   
   									</a>'; ?>
   
   									<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/assets/graphics/category-image/<?php echo $category->slug ?>.jpg" />
   
   								  <?php echo '</li>'
   
   							;}
   					 ?>
   
                   </ul>

   The live page can be found here and is currently using child_of to demonstrate the layout.

   Can anyone explain why parent isn't working/what I'm doing wrong?

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 11 months ago #

   does 922 have direct child categories which have posts?

   if not, you may need to include the 'hide_empty' => 0, parameter;
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_categories

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