Title: Functionality Issue With Dropdown_Cats
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Functionality Issue With Dropdown_Cats

 *  [marshall1972](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marshall1972/)
 * (@marshall1972)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionality-issue-with-dropdown_cats/)
 * Hello,
 * I want to use <?php dropdown_cats; ?> in my sidebar where it shows only the children_of
   a category.
 * When I use this code
 * <form action=”<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>” method=”get”>
    <?php dropdown_cats(); ?
   > <input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”view” /> </form>
 * it lists all the categories I have and this is not what I want. Before I started
   trying to use dropdown_cats I used wp_list_cats with the “chidren_of” function
   on my sidebar to limit what categories where displayed on a particular page. 
   For example, on my homepage the categories on the sidebar where Movies, TV, Sports,&
   News. When you clicked on Movies you went to the movie page and the sidebar changed
   to display only the “children_of” the Movies category which looked something 
   like this: American Pie, Hook, No Way Out, Pirates of the Carribean 2, Tombstone,
   etc.
 * So my question is can I get this same functionality with dropdown_cats? It seems
   it should be possible but I just can’t seems to figure it out.
 * Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [marshall1972](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marshall1972/)
 * (@marshall1972)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionality-issue-with-dropdown_cats/#post-435347)
 * Here is a plugin I found that allows you exclude as many categories as you want.
   It is not exactly what I was talking about but it is the best alternative I have
   found.
 * [http://zeligplanet.altervista.org/2006/01/wordpress-plugin-zelig-dropdown-cats/](http://zeligplanet.altervista.org/2006/01/wordpress-plugin-zelig-dropdown-cats/)
 *  [kayaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kayaker/)
 * (@kayaker)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionality-issue-with-dropdown_cats/#post-435407)
 * Any body know how to get this to work with Zelig’s plugin. I want the same functionality!
 * Requested on Zelig’s site (link above) and here: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/109439?replies=1#post-529186](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/109439?replies=1#post-529186)

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## Tags

 * [dropdown_cats](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dropdown_cats/)
 * [wp_list_cats](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_list_cats/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [kayaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kayaker/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionality-issue-with-dropdown_cats/#post-435407)
 * Status: not resolved

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