Title: wp_dropdown_categories
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wp_dropdown_categories

 *  [mythusmage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mythusmage/)
 * (@mythusmage)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_dropdown_categories-1/)
 * Could someone knowledgeable give a painless description and explanation of this
   tag? Parameters etc.?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_dropdown_categories-1/#post-548650)
 * Haven’t used this but here’s the default parameter settings from wp-includes/
   wp-categories.php
 *     ```
       $defaults = array('show_option_all' => '',
       'show_option_none' => '',
       'orderby' => 'ID',
       'order' => 'ASC',
       'show_last_update' => 0,
       'show_count' => 0,
       'hide_empty' => 1,
       'child_of' => 0,
       'exclude' => '',
       'echo' => 1,
       'selected' => 0,
       'hierarchical' => 0,
       'name' => 'cat',
       'class' => 'postform');
       ```
   
 * The old [Template_Tags/dropdown_cats](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/dropdown_cats)
   also has some explanations…
 *  Thread Starter [mythusmage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mythusmage/)
 * (@mythusmage)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_dropdown_categories-1/#post-548795)
 * Looks like one could have a lot of typing to do, were one to have a lot of child
   and grandchild categories. Sounds like plugin time to me. 🙂
 * My thanks for your assistance.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_dropdown_categories-1/#post-548827)
 * More flesh on the bone now:
    [Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_categories](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_categories)
 * Would appreciate any better explanations of what the developers intended with‘
   show_option_all’ and ‘show_option_none’.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_dropdown_categories-1/#post-548827)
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