You can add <?php wp_list_categories(); ?>, either to your theme sidebar.php, or into header.php
I just tried adding it right after <?php wp_list_pages(); ?> in header.php of my test copy, and now the menu is showing both pages and categories, so it works.
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ahhrrr
(@ahhrrr)
Thanks! This is exactly the tip I needed.
Can you change which categories you would like to appear on each page? Say you have 5 pages and you want there to be different categories on each page?
@ djones101
Yes, you can. Read here about creating a variable sidebar with conditional tags
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#Variable_Sidebar_Content
The code would be something similar to
<?php
// let's generate info appropriate to the page being displayed
if (is_home()) {
// we're on the home page, so let's show a list of all top-level categories
echo "<ul>";
wp_list_categories('optionall=0&sort_column=name&list=1&children=0');
echo "</ul>";
} elseif (is_page(name of page 1)) {
// now we start to display categories conditionally, depending on which page we are on
echo "<ul>";
wp_list_categories('orderby=name&include=3,5,9,16');
echo "</ul>";
} elseif (is_page(name of page 2)) {
echo "<ul>";
wp_list_categories('orderby=name&include=4,6,8,12');
echo "</ul>";
} elseif (is_page(name of page 3)) {
echo "<ul>";
wp_list_categories('orderby=name&include=7,21,64');
echo "</ul>";
} else {
// catch-all for all other pages, listing all categories
echo "<ul>";
wp_list_categories('optionall=0&sort_column=name&list=1&children=0');
echo "</ul>";
}
?>
buddha,
Currently I have this in my header.php file. This controls the nav on my page.
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">What is SR22 Insurance?</a></li>
<li><a href="#">What is Non-Owner Insurance?</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Financial Responsibility Form</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Auto Insurance Definitions</a></li>
<?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0'); ?>
<li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
I would like to be a able to have the bookmarks for the post/page appear between auto insurance definitions and contact us. However, I would only like the bookmarks for that specific post to be in that area.
As an example, lets say I have 3 posts. Post one is titled fruit, post 2 is titled veggies, post 3 is titled pets. I have also created a category for each title. I then created 20 links and assigned them in the dashboard to those categories.
I would like to have those links appear between auto insurance definitions and contact us in my nav. Is there a way to do this without having to assign the ID of each link to the statement in the hardcode? Can I just assign the link category id to the page?
The reason I ask… I am creating a site that will include all 50 states and then potentially 30-40 links per state. I would like an easy way to assign those links.
Thanks
Dan
djones,
I haven’t tried using conditional bookmarks, will look into it…
See if, as a start, these references may help you
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/01/06/easy-navigation-menus-in-wordpress on using bookmarks for navigation
and http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_bookmarks
on this page http://wphacks.com/wordpress-blogroll-code-separating-your-categories/ there is the following code mentioned
<?php wp_list_bookmarks('categorize=1&before=<li>&title_before=<h2>&title_after=</h2>&category_before=</n>&category_before=</n>&after=</li>&orderby=url'); ?>
He is using categorize=1 (true). I don’t know if this makes it conditional, worth a try.
Hope this helps…
Nope,
It didn’t work. It just seems a little weird that they have link categories and no way to dynamically input them into the page.
