Displaying sub categories

  • ucarmetin

    (@ucarmetin)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    Hey!

    I’ve a problem with displaying the sub categories of posts on archive page, and couldn’t find a definitive answer on forums and other WP related websites. Here is the problem:
    Here is a rough view of my category system

    • Category A
    • Sub Category A-1
    • Sub Category A-2
    • Sub Category A-3
    • Category B
    • Sub Category B-1
    • Sub Category B-2

    and so on.

    For instance, a visitor is viewing the archive page of “Category A” and all the latest posts are listed in a chronological order. The posts here also have sub categories. Some of them have one sub category, let’s say “Sub Category A-1”, whereas others have more than one sub category, e.g. “Sub Category A-2” and “Sub Category A-3”.

    What I want to do display these sub categories without linking before the title of post. Sometimes I need to display only one sub category but there are some instances where I have to display all the sub categories.

    Does anyone have an idea how I could accomplish this?

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    <?php $cats = get_the_category($post->ID);
$sep = '';
foreach( $cats as $cat ) {
  $subcats = get_categories('child_of='.$cat->term_id);
  if($subcats) {
    foreach( $subcats as $subcat )
      {   echo $sep . $subcat->name; $sep = ', '; }
  }
}
?>

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_category
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_categories

    the above will show all subcategories of all the post’s categories at all times.

    Sometimes I need to display only one sub category but there are some instances where I have to display all the sub categories.

    how is this defined?

    Thread Starter ucarmetin

    (@ucarmetin)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Hey alchymyth,

    Thanks for response and code hint. However this outputs all the sub categories.

    Now I’ve slightly changed my approach. Instead of what I stated earlier, I want to output only one sub category. It’s hard to explain without visual that’s why here is the link of site I’m working on.

    Here, all 4 top categories have the same sub categories. And every post has one of these sub categories. For instance, if a post has “Teknik” as top category, it will for sure have one of the four following sub categories of Teknik: Nyheter, Tester, Guides, Features. In addition to that, it could also have one or two more sub categories of Teknik. So posts would look like this:

    Post A: Teknik, Nyheter
    Post B: Teknik, Tester, Dator
    Post C: Teknik, Guider, Mobilt, Mjukvara

    etc…

    So what I want to do now is to display only one of these four main categories. The same goes for other top categories: Musik, Film och Spel.

    Is there any chance you have a hint for this as well?

    Btw, I know it’s kinda off the topic but I’ll ask. Do you know how I could make use of WordPress trac? For instance can I use the code listed in this file in my theme?

    Regards.

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