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1. Cathy Tibbles
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   First - I've read the most recent posts on this - and I've struggled for over 8 hours on this... which I'm hoping won't just show how dumb I am...

   I would like a heirarchial category output on an individual Page, or Category template. either would work fine. AND when the sub-sub-etc-category is clicked - a list of alphabetical posts.

   I now have way too much jumbled info in my brain, and I can't figure out the simple solution:
   Am I looking for an archive php parameter (can postbypost do this?)
   - a get_posts (but that doesn't recognize child & parent relationships)?
   - wp_list_categories? (All the navigation tree plugins that I've tried (Dagon Design/ Sobek's/ wp-dtree/ wenderhost/ Alex King's fold categories - all get that damn category error.)
   help!!

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Would a Page with this code in the template work:
   

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: wplistcatpage
   */
   ?>
   
   <?php get_header(); ?>
   
   <div id="content" class="widecolumn">
   
   <?php
   wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>');
   ?>
   </div>
   
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

   Note: used the above with the WordPress Default 1.6 theme.

3. Cathy Tibbles
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm not sure what you mean... I can write pages from admin, and I have a page template... If the above page was called "recipes" (a category), and called a list of categories...then the user could click on a subcategory to get a multi-post listing of its contents... that isn't quite what I had in mind.

   What i'm looking for - is the code to control the category template once the user clicks on a category link from any navigation list.

   I am thinking (am I right?) that any click on any category in a category link list, will pull the category template? On that template, I'd like these snippets:

   1. If is a parent =List current_category only & its children.
   2. If is not a parent= List current_subcategory(itself) & post_titles (links) alphabetically

   In the codex, these things get into stuff with $ signs everywhere, and assumes a bit of php / template knowledge... totally over my head.

   Is appropriate to ask for snippets, or is this someone's bread & butter?

4. Cathy Tibbles
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I'm going to post these questions under a better title...

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