show subcategories in sidebar when viewing single posts
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hi,
i’m trying to use the categories as a navigation. So far i got the subcategories showing nicely when on a parent or sibbling in the sidebar using this code:
<?php if(is_category()) { $breakpoint = 0; $thiscat = get_term( get_query_var('cat') , 'category' ); $subcategories = get_terms( 'category' , 'parent='.get_query_var('cat') ); if(empty($subcategories) && $thiscat->parent != 0) { $subcategories = get_terms( 'category' , 'parent='.$thiscat->parent.'' ); } $items=''; if(!empty($subcategories)) { foreach($subcategories as $subcat) { if($thiscat->term_id == $subcat->term_id) $current = ' current-cat'; else $current = ''; $items .= ' <li class="cat-item cat-item-'.$subcat->term_id.$current.'"> <a href="'.get_category_link( $subcat->term_id ).'" title="'.$subcat->description.'">'.$subcat->name.'</a> </li>'; } echo "<ul>$items</ul>"; } unset($subcategories,$subcat,$thiscat,$items); } ?>
which I got from this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/showing-subcategories-of-a-parent-page-under-subcategory
big thanks to t31os_ !
my problem now is that the subcategories still need to show when viewing the individual posts. tried the code from akis but it doesn’t work for me.
quite new to this so pl keep answers simple, thanks!
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use this
<?php $breakpoint = 0; $thiscat = get_term( get_query_var('cat') , 'category' ); $subcategories = get_terms( 'category' , 'parent='.get_query_var('cat') ); if(empty($subcategories) && $thiscat->parent != 0) { $subcategories = get_terms( 'category' , 'parent='.$thiscat->parent.'' ); } $items=''; if(!empty($subcategories)) { foreach($subcategories as $subcat) { if($thiscat->term_id == $subcat->term_id) $current = ' current-cat'; else $current = ''; $items .= ' <li class="cat-item cat-item-'.$subcat->term_id.$current.'"> <a href="'.get_category_link( $subcat->term_id ).'" title="'.$subcat->description.'">'.$subcat->name.'</a> </li>'; } echo "<ul>$items</ul>"; } unset($subcategories,$subcat,$thiscat,$items); ?>
or uses
if(is_category() || is_single())
instead ofif(is_category())
ok that works but also shows the categories, i only want the subs when on the posts. is there a way to fix that?
r you use this
uses if(is_category() || is_single()) instead of if(is_category())
sorry i don’t get it, can’t find where it says
if(is_category())
see your post…there it is.
ah ok , was looking at your code..
still no luck, categories showing when viewing the post
r you want all category and subcategory of your site or post specific category and sub category
only post specific subcategory
so this function will not work..need some modification
and the siblings of that subcategory.
I got the categories in my main nav, then when selected the specific subcategories show in the sidebar, and I want them to stay that way when viewing the posts belonging to any of those subcategories
it is possible but need some modification of that function.
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