showing categories and subcategories using THE_CATEGORY ??

  • podpersonjason

    (@podpersonjason)


    18 years, 10 months ago

    hey there.

    i’m trying to find a way to use the “<?php the_category( ); ?>” tag to display the hiarchical relationship between my category and its subcategory.

    to clarify: if a post is in the subcat “monkeys” whose parent category is “primates” i want the_category to return “primates > monkeys”. obviously the > sign is arbitrary. the point is that the_category only shows the category a post is placed in, and makes no reference to the parent category? is there a way around this? besides posting the entry in both “primates” and “monkeys”?

    thanks!

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  • oriecat

    (@oriecat)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    I think if you use something like <?php the_category(', ','single') ?> then it will show both the parent and child, separated by a /.

    See here:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_category

    Thread Starter podpersonjason

    (@podpersonjason)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    yes, that is correct, but – and feel free to call me anal – i am really hoping to find a way that will list them and let me control whether it’s a link or just a list, and also lets me dictate the seperating character.

    <?php the_category_rss(‘ , ‘,’ single ‘) ?> returns the category from the post and its parent, but only as a single link and only seperated by the \ … i’m hoping to find something more flexable.

    jalenack

    (@jalenack)

    18 years, 10 months ago

    the_category is meant to only display the link of the post it is referenced to. You are looking for another wp function:

    wp_list_cats() – It makes a nice little list of all your categories, with links.

    <h2>Categories</h2>
    <ul>
    <?php wp_list_cats(); ?>
    </ul>

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats

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