Title: Category List Dropdown help needed
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Category List Dropdown help needed

 *  Resolved [martinfamily2005](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinfamily2005/)
 * (@martinfamily2005)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-list-dropdown-help-needed/)
 * OK, I have implemented a dropdown category list on a page, and it works fine,
   but I want to change some things….but I am not sure how to go about doing that.
   Here is the page where the dropdown is located (at the bottom): [http://billboardfamily.com/blogs/](http://billboardfamily.com/blogs/)
 * Here is what I want to do.
 * 1) I want to EXCLUDE category ID 7 from the dropdown list.
    2) I want the target
   page (when a category is selected) to show a list of the blog titles (as links)
   instead of the complete posts. I want it to work just like it does on this site:
   [http://iwearyourshirt.com/blogs](http://iwearyourshirt.com/blogs)
 * Here is the code I am using on the dropdown as of now. Thanks!
 *     ```
       <?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_option_none=Select category'); ?>
   
       <script type="text/javascript"><!--
           var dropdown = document.getElementById("cat");
           function onCatChange() {
               if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value > 0 ) {
                   location.href = "<?php echo get_option('home');
       ?>/?cat="+dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;
               }
           }
           dropdown.onchange = onCatChange;
       --></script>
       ```
   

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 *  [Dan Bissonnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asinglehumanbeing/)
 * (@asinglehumanbeing)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-list-dropdown-help-needed/#post-1670148)
 * 1) To remove category 7, you should just be able to do:
    `<?php wp_dropdown_categories('
   exclude=7&show_option_none=Select category'); ?>`
 * 2) It depends a bit on the theme you are using. You may have to edit the ‘archive.
   php’ file in your theme (or child theme). There will probably a call to `the_excerpt()`
   which you can either remove entirely (which will also change your tag, monthly,
   author archive pages) or filter it like so:
 *     ```
       <?php
           if(!is_category()) {the_excerpt();}
       ?>
       ```
   
 * You may need to edit some of the other markup around it as well depending on 
   how you want it to display.
 *  Thread Starter [martinfamily2005](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinfamily2005/)
 * (@martinfamily2005)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-list-dropdown-help-needed/#post-1670255)
 * That worked well for #1.
 * I tried what you have for #2, and it is not exactly what I was looking for. Basically,
   if you choose a category in the dropdown on [http://www.iwearyourshirt.com/blogs](http://www.iwearyourshirt.com/blogs),“
   Day Journal” for example, you get a list of all the posts in that category in
   a paginated list (see here: [http://iwearyourshirt.com/category/categories/day-journal](http://iwearyourshirt.com/category/categories/day-journal))
   This is exactly what I want on my site.
 * Also, here is the code for my archives.php , if that helps:
 * And the archive page (when you choose Daily T-Shirt Blog from the dropdown: [http://billboardfamily.com/daily-t-shirt-blogs/](http://billboardfamily.com/daily-t-shirt-blogs/)
 *     ```
       <?php include("header.php"); ?>
   
       <!-- BEGIN content -->
       <div id="content">
   
       	<?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?>
       	<?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
       	<h2 class="title">Archive for the <strong><?php single_cat_title(); ?></strong> Category</h2>
       	<?php /* If this is a tag archive */ } elseif( is_tag() ) { ?>
       	<h2 class="title">Posts Tagged <strong><?php single_tag_title(); ?></strong></h2>
       	<?php /* If this is a daily archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
       	<h2 class="title">Archive for <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></h2>
       	<?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
       	<h2 class="title">Archive for <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?></h2>
       	<?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
       	<h2 class="title">Archive for <?php the_time('Y'); ?></h2>
       	<?php /* If this is an author archive */ } elseif (is_author()) { ?>
       	<h2 class="title">Author Archive</h2>
       	<?php /* If this is a paged archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) { ?>
       	<h2 class="title">Blog Archives</h2>
       	<?php } ?>
   
       	<?php
       	if (have_posts()) :
       	while (have_posts()) : the_post();
       	?>
   
       	<!-- BEGIN post -->
       	<div class="post">
       		<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php dp_attachment_image($post->ID, 'thumbnail', 'alt="' . $post->post_title . '"'); 
   
       ?></a>
       <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   
       		<p class="date"><?php the_time('F j, Y') ?> <span class="category"><?php the_category(', ') ?></span> <span 
   
       class="comments"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></a></p>
       	</div>
       	<!-- END post -->
   
       	<?php endwhile; ?>
       	<p class="postnav">
       		<?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries'); ?> &nbsp;
       		<?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;'); ?>
       	</p>
       	<?php else : ?>
       	<div class="notfound">
       		<h2>Not Found</h2>
       		<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that is not here.</p>
       	</div>
       	<?php endif; ?>
   
       </div>
       <!-- END content -->
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 *  [Dan Bissonnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asinglehumanbeing/)
 * (@asinglehumanbeing)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-list-dropdown-help-needed/#post-1670306)
 * Ok, If you want an unordered list of the post titles, that’s a bit more complex.
 * You might be best creating a separate `category.php` template in your theme directory
   where you can customise the layout in more detail.
 * Here’s a basic `category.php` file [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1940373](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1940373).
   I haven’t tested it and you will need to do some styling to get it to look exactly
   like the example you linked to.

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