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1. chiara77
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey everybody,
   I am looking for help to solve one issue I have spent a lot of time on.

   I need to have a dropdown menu showing the subcategories of a certain category (in my case, the parent category is called "Events"). When the user selects one item in the dropdown (so, one of my subcategories, let's say "kids activities") I need to see all the posts that belong to that certain subcategory.

   This is the code that creates my dropdown:

   <select name="type-dropdown" onchange='document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;'>
    <option value=""><?php echo attribute_escape(__('Type of Comedy')); ?></option>
    <?php
     $categories=  get_categories('child_of=21');
     foreach ($categories as $category) {
     	$option = '<option value="/categories/Date/'.$category->category_nicename.'">';
   	$option .= $category->cat_name;
   	$option .= ' ('.$category->category_count.')';
   	$option .= '</option>';
   	echo $option;
     }
    ?>
   </select>

   This works just fine in showing my subcategories in the dropdown menu, but when I select one item nothing happens. I understand that I need to assign some right query in the <option value""> that retrieves the posts from the selected subcategory, but I just try try and without success. Would much appreciate if anybody could help.

   Thank you

   Chiara

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