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1. jmsnyder23
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi,

   I've searched and searched the forums for an answer to this ... and I should start out by saying I'm not very proficient in PHP.

   I have a book review website that has four main categories. Each category has multiple subcategories. On the category page (using the category template), I would like to list the posts by subcategory.

   Currently, all posts display under the parent. I want them to display like this:

   PARENT CATEGORY

   Subcategory 1
   • Post 1
   • Post 2

   Subcategory 2
   • Post 3
   • Post 4

   etc ...

   Any clue how to do this? I can't figure it out.

   Thanks in advance!

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You cannot do that without creating some custom Category_Templates and custom multiple Loops in it.

3. jmsnyder23
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Well I have a custom category template, and a custom loop already to call the posts in the category. What I'm not sure of is how to create a second loop that will return the posts by their subcategory.

   Any suggestions?

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have a custom category template, and a custom loop already to call the posts in the category

   Hmmm... There must be something wrong in your setup because you don't need any special custom Loop in a category template! WP knows better what to display there than you do...

5. jmsnyder23
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You're not really helping.

6. anabelle
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I've found about 5 posts asking the exact same question (including mine) and no one has an answer :(

   Is this really that hard?

7. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I wrote this up at my site WordPressIntoCMS.com. I hope this is what you were after.

   Many people on the WordPress.org support forum are asking how to do this.

   Here is the simple solution I came across. It will allow you to display the title of a child category without displaying the parent category.

   Put this code in your template:

   [php]<?php
   $category = get_the_category();
   echo $category[1]->cat_name;
   ?>[/php]

   (Adapted from this code at WordPress.org.)

   The [1] tells it not to pull the parent category which would be [0] but instead to pull the child category which is [1]. If your hierarchy contains more layers simply change the number accordingly.

8. rumblepup
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've just come across this post, and I've been asking the same thing. @cakeychan, there must be some kind of way to do this dynamically, that should be the benefit of a dynamic application.
   @moshu, please have a little more patience with us noobs. We are only asking for help.

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