Category Filter at Top, with Selected Category Pages updating in Widgets

mcnamc2
(@mcnamc2)

11 years, 4 months ago

Very excited to find this plugin! Looking to use this plugin to allow a user to select from a category, and then the resulting pages load up on three widgets. http://cl.ly/image/0B3e1L1A1A2F

I am hoping to have the widgets set by a Post Title (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) and being populated with the most recent post of that category.

Where “Train me for a Marathon” — Marathon is the Category, and user selects it from a dropdown with 4 other categories.

The widgets with Day 1 / Day 2 / and Day 3 will be updated with the posts tagged with that category.

Can you please describe how I can add this script to my home page, and set it for the widgets?

Thanks so much!
Catharine

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cat-tag-filter-widget/

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Plugin Author

(@ajayver)

Hi!
Since you don’t need to filter by tag, you can use native wordpress function of a categories dropdown:

<li id="categories">
	<h2><?php _e('Posts by Category'); ?></h2>
	<form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/" method="get">
	<div>
<?php
$select = wp_dropdown_categories('show_option_none=Select category&show_count=1&orderby=name&echo=0');
$select = preg_replace("#<select([^>]*)>#", "<select$1 onchange='return this.form.submit()'>", $select);
echo $select;
?>
	<noscript><div><input type="submit" value="View" /></div></noscript>
	</div></form>
</li>

More info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_categories

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