Title: Category array Last modified: January 24, 2018 --- # Category array * [mrtargets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtargets/) * (@mrtargets) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/) * Hello everyone! * I have created a page to showcase all categories and their respective posts heading and selected image. Now I want to be able to add subcategories to them and these subcategories should **not ** appear on this page. I’ve searched everywhere and tried all solutions I can think of but nothing works! Is there anyone who can help me shine some light on this? * Here is the code I’m using today (without styling): * ``` 'id', 'order' => 'ASC', 'parent' => '3')); foreach ($cats as $cat) { $cat_id= $cat->term_id; echo "

".$cat->name."

"; query_posts("cat=$cat_id&posts_per_page=100&order=asc&orderby=title"); if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> ``` * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcategory-array%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [Vignesh Pichamani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viky081/) * (@viky081) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9898181) * You have to pass the parent category id to get the child of corresponding categories. * ``` $categories=get_categories( array( 'parent' => $cat_id ) ); ``` * Thank you, Vignesh Pichamani. * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9900229) * related? [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/127872/get-only-the-top-level-categories-using-get-categories-without-foreach-loop](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/127872/get-only-the-top-level-categories-using-get-categories-without-foreach-loop) * Thread Starter [mrtargets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtargets/) * (@mrtargets) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9900473) * **Hi, thank you for your answers.** * I have already tested that solution, but unfortunately it does not help me. Will try to explain the structure of my categories a bit better. * **The page “Categories” displays;** * – Category 1 (Title) — Post 1 (Title & image) — Post 2 (Title & image) * – Category 2 (Title) — Post 1 (Title & image) — Post 2 (Title & image) * **Current situation that i need to fix look like this:** * – Category 1 (Title) — Post 1 (Title & image) —- Post 1.1 (Child to “Post 1”– _Should not be listed_) — Post 2 (Title & image) * – Category 2 (Title) — Post 1 (Title & image) —- Post 1.1 (Child to “Post 1”– _Should not be listed_) — Post 2 (Title & image) - This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [mrtargets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtargets/). * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9904188) * by default, posts do not have a hierarchical structure, as for example static pages would have. * how do you define your posts as ‘Child to’ another post? * what theme are you using? * Thread Starter [mrtargets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtargets/) * (@mrtargets) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9905075) * Thanks for your reply. It was me who had missed a little in my explanation, sorry for that. * **Here is an updated version of the structure:** * – Category 1 (Title) —- Category 1.1 (Posts in this child category should not be listed on page) — Post 1 (Title & image) — Post 2 (Title & image) * – Category 2 (Title) —- Category 2.1 (Posts in this child category should not be listed on page) — Post 1 (Title & image) — Post 2 (Title & image) * It is by the way a theme I have written myself, no pre-written framework. - This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [mrtargets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtargets/). - This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by [mrtargets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtargets/). * Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) * (@bcworkz) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9908083) * How does Michael’s SE link not help you? get_terms() with a parent argument of 0 will only return top level terms, which appears to be exactly what you want. * Thread Starter [mrtargets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtargets/) * (@mrtargets) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9912375) * Hello again * I do not know how to make me clearer but when I use “parent => 0” I get the following structure: * – Main category — All posts in the system, no matter what category they are in – parent or child. * The way I want the structure to look like is as follows: * – Main category – Should not show — **Subcategory 1 – Print out name och category**— Post in Subcategory 1 – Print out title and image —- Child to Subcategory 1 – NOT visible —– Posts in children to subcategory 1 – not shown — **Subcategory 2 – Print out name och category** — Post in Subcategory 2 – Print out title and image —- Child to Subcategory 2 – NOT visible —– Posts in children to subcategory 2 – not shown * Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) * (@bcworkz) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9918732) * Well, it wasn’t clear before that you did not want the main category. Thank you for clarifying. * If you do not want the main category, do not use `'parent'=> 0`, instead of 0, use the ID of the subcategory’s parent, the “Main category” ID. For each sub- category returned, use get_posts() using the ‘cat’ argument to get posts with the respective term assigned. * Thread Starter [mrtargets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtargets/) * (@mrtargets) * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9925196) * Hello again and thank you very much to all those who thought about this issue. I will sit down and rewrite the code from start to finish and we’ll see where I land. Believe that I may have thought wrong from the beginning: P Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Category array’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/) * [levels](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/levels/) * [parents](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parents/) * In: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) * 9 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [mrtargets](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtargets/) * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-array/#post-9925196) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics