How do I get category.php to show children excerpts?

  • fionagilbert

    (@fionagilbert)


    14 years ago

    Hi all and good morning.

    I am using the following code to pull in a specific categories post

    http://paste-it.net/public/ce09af5/

    but I wondered if anyone could offer a way to filter this just to show a specific category child.

    Can anyone offer any advice as to what I need to add to my code please?

    Thanks,
    Fiona

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years ago

    You’d have to use get_categories(‘child_of=’.get_query_var(‘cat’)) to get whatever child category then use that in your query.

    Thread Starter fionagilbert

    (@fionagilbert)

    14 years ago

    Thanks for that Michael,

    Is there anyone who could possibly show me how to implement in my code? I didn’t code this – my ‘ex’ did and he’s not around now!

    Thank you,
    Fiona

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years ago

    Maybe it is simpler than I presented. Try about this:

    <?php
$cat_id = get_cat_ID('your child category name here');
$args=array(
  'cat' => $cat_id,
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  echo 'Child category excerpts';
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
    the_excerpt();
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>
    Thread Starter fionagilbert

    (@fionagilbert)

    14 years ago

    Sorry was away.

    Thank you so much. Will try this out tonight 🙂

    Thanks again.

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