cacophoney

Hope I do understand your message correctly.. I want to do more or less the same thing, too.

First I make another template for category page using the mod_rewrite thingie (by modifying the .htaccess file — there’s a tutorial on that but i dont have my bookmarks so i cant give you the link, sorry).

Then in my category.php page, I write this:
<?php wp_list_cats(‘child_of=$cat’); ?>
where I want my subcategory links to display.
To show only subcategories one level down (ie hiding subcategories of a subcategory, if any), I only use CSS (display: none).

The only problem is, I need to put a text (“subcategories:”) before the subcategories link, so my code goes like:
<ul id="subcat">
<li>subcategories: </li>
<?php wp_list_cats('child_of=$cat'); ?>
</ul>
When a category has no further subcategories under it, it would still display the text “subcategories:”.
What I need is the code to hide that
<li>subcategories: </li>
part IF there’s no subcategories under a category. I know I probably should use some “if-then” thingie using PHP but I know positively nothing about php so I’d be glad if anyone can help.

Loads of thanks.