{"id":969697,"date":"2009-01-26T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/using-wp-dropdown-categories\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T03:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T03:19:42","slug":"using-wp-dropdown-categories","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/using-wp-dropdown-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Using WP Dropdown Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently implementing an archive index by an author and was seeing if someone here could assist me as I do not know PHP in-depth.<\/p>\n<p>The following php displays a list of categories as a drop-down menu:<\/p>\n<pre><code>&lt;?php wp_dropdown_categories(&#039;orderby=name&#038;show_count=1&#038;show_option_none=Select Category&#039;); ?&gt;\n&lt;script type=&quot;text\/javascript&quot;&gt;\n  var dropdown = document.getElementById(&quot;cat&quot;);\n  function onCatChange() {\n\tif ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value &gt; 0 ) {\n\t\tlocation.href =\n\t\t&quot;&lt;?php echo get_option(&#039;home&#039;);?&gt;\/?cat=&quot;+dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;\n\t}\n    }\n    dropdown.onchange = onCatChange;\n&lt;\/script&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I was hoping that rather than for the drop-down menu to show all the categories I have created through my WP Dashboard, I could only show specific categories only. For example, could I specify only the drop-down menu to show cat=16 or 9?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-969697","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/969697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/969697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}