How to list Category Names in Archive

katiebegood
(@katiebegood)

11 years, 8 months ago

Ok, I’m sure this is basic, but I can’t find the answer. When I click on a category in the sidebar of my theme, it presents me with a page that has “Archive” as the page title and then lists the post excerpts. The problem is that it doesn’t give the category name as a title and unless you remember what category you clicked on, you have no idea what it is. So, how do I get “Archive” to say the category name or if not that, how do I put the Category name at the top of the list of posts?

On another subject, how do I get rid of the “uncategorized” category in the Categories widget?

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Michael
(@alchymyth)

11 years, 8 months ago
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/single_cat_title

if your theme has a category.php, integrate it there;

if your theme only has an archive.php, integrate it in a conditional statement;
example:
```
<?php if( is_category() ) { ?>
<h3><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h3>
<?php } ?>
```
to exclude the ‘uncategorized’ category from the category widget, use a filter function added to functions.php of your theme: http://www.transformationpowertools.com/wordpress/edit-widget-parameters-filter-wordpress/#category-exclude
Thread Starter katiebegood
(@katiebegood)

11 years, 8 months ago

Thanks, that worked perfectly. Now a related question. I have a category called “Recipes”. Under that category I have child categories like “Breakfast”, “Appetizers”, etc. When I use your fix and click on the parent “Recipes”, it says “Recipes” at the top of the page. What I would like to do then is to have the “child” titles listed before the related recipes. So, the page would be like:

Recipes
Appetizers
appetizer recipes
Breakfast
breakfast recipes
etc.

How can I do this?
Michael
(@alchymyth)

11 years, 8 months ago
rough structure – without php tags and without html tags:

in the category archive page, you can get the category id with get_query_var('cat');

you can use that to get the child categories:

$child_cats = get_categories('parent='.get_query_var('cat'));

and then loop through them and get the corresponding posts:
```
if( $child_cats ) foreach( $child_cats as $cats ) {
  echo $cats->name;
  $cat_posts = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'category__in' => array( $cats->term_id ) );
    if( $cat_posts->have_posts() ) : while( $cat_posts->have_posts() ) : $cat_posts->the_post();
    //whatever you want to output per post//
    endwhile;
    endif; wp_rest_postdata();
  }
```
(untested – but here are links to the used functions)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_query_var
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_categories
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

details depend on your chosen layout and html structure.

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