How to link to category list in a different directory

  • kappaluppa

    (@kappaluppa)


    18 years, 7 months ago

    In order to create a totally password protected section of my website, I created a blog within a blog. However in the “inner blog”, the members only section, I want to have the sidebar of the “wrapper blog”.

    I created a database for the outside blog – db1 – and another database for the inside blog – db2.

    I am using <?php wp_list_cats(‘list=1’); ?> to list the categories. How do I pull the list from the outside database (db1)?

    I want to be able to switch from blog to blog seamlessly.

    Thanks for your suggestions!
    Kathy

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  • Lorelle

    (@lorelle)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    How about manually? Just type in the link to wherever you want it.

    <a href="/wordpress/index.php?cat=42">Category Name</a>

    You can learn more about manual linking on Linking Posts, Pages and Categories on the Codex.

    Thread Starter kappaluppa

    (@kappaluppa)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    For now that is how I am doing it, but I don’t want to have to hard code everytime a cat is added.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter kappaluppa

    (@kappaluppa)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    This is the very round about way I did it, for now…

    1) I created a php page with the code to list the cats & pages:
    <?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name’); ?>
    <?php wp_list_pages(‘exclude=2,12,14,15&title_li=’); ?>

    2) Make it a template page called sidebarmenu by adding this to the top:
    <?php
    /*
    Template Name: sidebarmenu
    */
    ?>

    3) Create a page in WP. In page template options choose the sidebarmenu template

    4) Include that page in the side bar using the full url to the page

    Here are some hints:
    * you have to have the include_page and the run_php plugins for it to work.
    * if you have an specific pages to include or exclude remember to update the template page

    Wow, it took a lot longer to figure it out that those few lines suggest! But now it sort of does a “triple update” –
    the categories update, which updates the page with php which updates the menu of sidebar on the nested blog.

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