Category Tag options/paramaters/arrays…what?

  • gvtexas

    (@gvtexas)


    21 years, 9 months ago

    I just jumped MT to WP and love everything about it…until i met “The Template Tags.” Suddenly WP’s apparent simplicity went totally out the window. Case in point: I’m trying to get a list of categories on the side bar that either includes or excludes categories. I have:
    Issues
    – 01
    – 02
    Articles
    Insights
    Specifically, this tag:
    <?php wp_list_cats(''); ?>
    According to the template tag manual (great, but apparently for codeheads only), I can add
    * ‘exclude’ – string – These are the categories to exclude from the list
    or
    * categories – integer array – A list of categories to be displayed. This should be in the form of an array.
    Neither explanation gives any clues as to how to style the option/parameters. The manual is too vague, and I’m sure this is a basic PHP thing, but for non-PHP users, it’s Greek.
    So I don’t know if inside the parenthesis I should put:
    (‘exclude’-Issues-) or (‘exclude=Issues’) or what.
    Can someone define how these are written or point somewhere (other than the Template Tags manual) that explains this in clear language?
    Thanks.
    Gary

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  • kayaker

    (@kayaker)

    21 years, 8 months ago

    Same Q!
    I switched to 1.2 mostly to get child categories, but my template doesn’t show them.
    ‘<li id=”categories”>Categories:
    ‘

      ‘<?php list_cats(1, ”, ‘name’); ?>
      ‘

    ‘ </li
    so I want to use the full comand to get the chill’n displayed,b ut I don’t understand the parameter descriptions and use. i think I’m stuck on “categories”.
    From http://wiki.wordpress.org/list_cats:
    “A list of categories to be displayed. This should be in the form of an array.” What’s that form? …, ‘1,2,3’, … or …, (“1”, “2”, “3”), … or ???
    A broader Q might touch on how to apply use of these:
    <?php list_cats(optionall, ‘all’, ‘sort_column’, ‘sort_order’, ‘file’, list, optiondates, optioncount, hide_empty, use_desc_for_title, children, child_of, categories, recurse, ‘feed’, ‘feed_image’, ‘exclude’); ?>
    The descriptions are not clear for me: e.g. the format for arrays, when you can leave ”?, do all parameters need to be included?
    Any answers?

    Lee Penney

    (@longplay)

    21 years, 8 months ago

    Okay, not sure about the include categories, but for exclude you need to use the category ID numbers (from the categories admin screen ), then list them between ” e.g: ‘6,5,7’ and I believe you need to set ALL of the options (either on or off) when using the function.
    I’m trying to find out about the include cats myself.

    Anonymous

    21 years, 8 months ago

    that’s not quite right…I’ve found that ‘1,2,3’ doesn’t form the array that they’re asking for. It gives an error every time.

    Ruby Sinreich

    (@rubyji)

    21 years, 6 months ago

    Try this for displaying child categories: http://wiki.wordpress.org/TheCategoryFixed

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