Title: Mixing Categories with Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Mixing Categories with Posts

 *  [Chris Kepinski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phpworker/)
 * (@phpworker)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mixing-categories-with-posts/)
 * Hi!
    I need some specific solution that is available for other (advanced) CMS
   tool which I have troubles installing it so far 🙂
 * I need option to list categories mixed with post on index.php page.
 * It means some tool to create link to category in another one or something like
   that.
 * Is there any plugin / hack / function allowing such thing?
 * Thank you.
 * Kriss.

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 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mixing-categories-with-posts/#post-1208858)
 * [WordPress used as CMS](http://wordpress.org/showcase/tag/cms/) is nothing to
   sneeze at, if I may say so myself 🙂
 * > I need option to list categories mixed with post on index.php page
 * Not clear, do you want to be able to place a category with its list of posts 
   on the home page?
 * > It means some tool to create link to category in another one or something like
   > that.
 * You want to create link to category to another one … a page with list of posts/
   articles from that category?
 * Maybe these links will help you, if not let us know
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/User:JamesVL/query_posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/User:JamesVL/query_posts)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates)
   [http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/latest-post-from-each-category-plugin-for-wordpress/](http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/latest-post-from-each-category-plugin-for-wordpress/)
   [http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/archives-by-selected-categories-plugin-for-wordpress/](http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/archives-by-selected-categories-plugin-for-wordpress/)
 *  Thread Starter [Chris Kepinski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phpworker/)
 * (@phpworker)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mixing-categories-with-posts/#post-1208864)
 * Thank you for quick reply. I’ll try to be more clear: I need a tool that would
   allow me to list links to categories inside another category. These links would
   be mixed up with posts (some ordering would be a must).
 * Is there any concept for realizing such functionality?
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mixing-categories-with-posts/#post-1208865)
 * Sure there is – wp_list_category along with some other techniques plus some CSS
   for subcategories
    Some links to help you … – [Codex wp_list_category ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories)
   Some other links re subcategories listing with parent categories – [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/206191?replies=8](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/206191?replies=8)–
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/214586?replies=16](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/214586?replies=16)–
   [http://yoast.com/showing-subcategories-on-wordpress-category-pages/](http://yoast.com/showing-subcategories-on-wordpress-category-pages/)–
   [http://www.w3cgallery.com/w3c-blog/wordpress-hack/wordpress-display-sub-categories-of-category](http://www.w3cgallery.com/w3c-blog/wordpress-hack/wordpress-display-sub-categories-of-category)
 * You just add the links of the specific Posts or Pages where you want them, preferably
   before or after the wp_list_categories
 *  Thread Starter [Chris Kepinski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phpworker/)
 * (@phpworker)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mixing-categories-with-posts/#post-1208877)
 * Maybe I provide some example of what I need…
 * Let’s assume that the following is content of example category. What we have 
   inside? Let’s see:
 * post #1
    post#2 category#44 post#6 post#4 category#2 category#26 post#3 …
 * Maybe now you see what I mean 🙂 Categories listed above are in fact just links
   to them. There is no such functionality in WordPress admin, nor in plugins (google
   not found yet).
 * Any idea where to start?
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mixing-categories-with-posts/#post-1209049)
 * You’d either have to create a plugin/functional arguments to generate that list
   automatically per selection in admin via generated new admin panel for that OR..
 * 1. hardcode the links in your theme template or add a new php file in your theme
   folder e.g. mycats.php with all the HTML/CSS tags you need and update manually.
   Include wherever you like in your theme via
    `<?php include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/
   mycats.php' ); ?>`
 * 2. Or, to make it easy for a non-tech person, add New Page e.g. Mycats – exclude
   it from main navigation by exclude argument in wp_list_pages or using Exclude
   Pages from Navigation Plugin and include it in theme with wp_query_function
 *     ```
       <?php $the_query = new WP_Query('pagename=mycats');
       while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
       <h3 class="infoclass"><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
       <?php the_content(); ?>
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 * So any link list you add in the mycats Page will appear wherever you added the
   query in the templates
 *  Thread Starter [Chris Kepinski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phpworker/)
 * (@phpworker)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mixing-categories-with-posts/#post-1209128)
 * Thank you for you answer.
 * Seems there is a need for a plugin that would allow me to create links to categories
   within another category. Next it should allow to show such links on category 
   page.
 * Let’s look deeper…
    There is column post_type in wp_posts, which I could use 
   to identify a “category-link” type. By creating my own WP Query and some php 
   code I could define some specific conditions of showing that category-link (link
   to category, not to post, etc.).
 * And such “category-link” post should have custom_field that has category ID which
   it links to.
 * OK, seems we found a solution 🙂
 * Thanks again and have a nice week!

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