earthmanweb

Hi bedex78,

You can use this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_categories

example:
<?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_option_none=Select category&show_count=1&orderby=name&echo=1&taxonomy=custom_taxonomy_name');

I don’t really like that one, though, because you are forced to use the taxonomy ID as the value, which, if you are using it for a jumpmenu, can make it difficult to work with custom taxonomy templates

I just wrote the function below which uses get_terms:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_terms

It uses the get_terms arguments (see codex link above) by passing them through the $args array.

Advantages:
– creates easy to use links to taxonomy templates
– you can add multiple taxonomies to the dropdown list

Disadvantages: I haven’t figgred out how to add ‘count’ yet, along with other parameters that wp_dropdown_categories offers.

<?php
function get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args){
	$myterms = get_terms($taxonomies, $args);
	$output ="<select>";
	foreach($myterms as $term){
		$root_url = get_bloginfo('url');
		$term_taxonomy=$term->taxonomy;
		$term_slug=$term->slug;
		$term_name =$term->name;
		$link = $root_url.'/'.$term_taxonomy.'/'.$term_slug;
		$output .="<option value='".$link."'>".$term_name."</option>";
	}
	$output .="</select>";
return $output;
}

$taxonomies = array('custom_taxonomy_name');
$args = array('orderby'=>'count','hide_empty'=>true);
echo get_terms_dropdown($taxonomies, $args);

?>

Hope this helps!

this would be great, but I installed it on Beta 2 and it doesn’t seem to be working on my site…

I am using two custom taxonomies (locations, job-category), and a custom page type (jobs).

Here’s my query

?post_type=jobs&locations=beaver-valley&job-category=science-technology&post_status=publish&orderby=date&order=DESC&posts_per_page=15&paged=1

I am using the following code to change my query:

$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$new_query_vars = "?post_type=jobs&locations=beaver-valley&job-category=science-technology&post_status=publish&orderby=date&order=DESC&posts_per_page=15&paged=1";
$wp_query -> query( $new_query_vars );

With the code above, WordPress only filters on the ‘job-category’ taxonomy. When I remove that, the ‘locations’ filter works just fine.

I installed the plugin, but I get the same results…

Please, am I doing something wrong?

Also, is this code going into Core soon? This seems like a pretty vital piece of functionality, IMO.

Thanks!

it would seem this bug has been fixed in the latest versions.

CND, can you confirm the same?

I am experiencing a similar problem, where my plugin Shadowbox-JS is attempting to load files linked to by the “Link Image” feature in the WordPress image options. The link given is with a lowercase .jpg, but the actual file exists with an uppercase extension (.JPG) causing it to fail. It would seem there is a bug with 2.8’s uploader – anyone know which file to patch it in?

Thanks!
T

Thanks for the help so far in this thread, very useful.

I am having trouble with one thing, i am trying to get two sets of the latest posts that exist in categories 11,13,15,17,19,21 and then another loop that contains posts in cats: 12,14,16,18,20,22, but I ALSO want to ensure that all of the posts pulled are members of category 7 (7 is NOT the parent of the others).

I was trying these two queries:

query_posts(array('cat=11,13,15,17,19,21', 'category__and'=>array(7),'showposts'=>6,'orderby'=>menu_order,'order'=>ASC));
query_posts(array('cat=12,14,16,18,20,22', 'category__and'=>array(7),'showposts'=>6,'orderby'=>menu_order,'order'=>ASC));

but the results end up being identical. Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated, please?

Have you tried this one?

http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?page_id=129