Showing subcategories on WordPress category pages

Cool thanks joost, i was searching for something like this.

Thanks for the hack / mod, dude. I consider the WordPress category system to be their weakest link and this little hack should help out quite a bit.

Thanks

I'm having problems with displaying subcategories. When I create a sub category it shows on blog pages at its a main category, i.e. it is aligned separately in alphabetical order. I added your code to sidebar.php , but it changed nothing. Please help.
btw, When I switch back to default wordpress template it does show sub cats under its main cat.

Hi Joost,

Help me please! :D

Viewing a category page. If it haves subcategories, show the subcategories list like link-post-names at top of the page.

Can u please help?

Many thanks. Keep up the great work. =)

Thanks Joost for all your help! :)

Hi,

Can you explain exactly where to palce this code,
I copied into sidebar, and the subcategory showed but way down the bottom of the menu, how would I make it display directly under the top category.

Hi,

Can you please tell me where to insert that code???
I dont know PHP... but can follow thing if you can give me some directions. pls.

Thank you.
Regards
Raj

Perhaps you could also adjust your code along the lines of the below, as it keeps the list when visiting those subcategories.

cat_ID == 21) or ($this_category->cat_ID == 35) or ($this_category->cat_ID == 23) or ($this_category->cat_ID == 34)) { ?>
cat_name; ?>

category_parent == 21) or ($this_category->category_parent == 35) or ($this_category->category_parent == 23) or ($this_category->category_parent == 34)) { ?>
category_parent, FALSE, '', FALSE)); ?>

category_parent.'&Categories=0&hierarchical=1'); ?>

Cheers!
Iain

I have the exact same problem as Kirsten!

Thanks for the code,
Can you show the full code. I mean those with the "".

I do not know where to put those.

Please advise. Thanks.

Thank you so much for this code - I got the link here from the WP forums.

Is there a way to show ONLY the current-cat's children (& not great-grandkids)? Have you worked with collapsing/ folding categories in wp?

And, any tips why your code would insert a blank ul marker before the list? (i've checked, and I don't have any weird category names-ok, maybe they are weird, but ya-know-what-I-mean?)

Thanks a ton again for sharing this snippet!
Cathy

Great ! Thanks for the Share :)

Hi joost,

I have a question. I want to create a wordpress blog that has subcategories pages which appear only under certain other pages.

For example, I would like the page "cat" to appear only in the sidebar under the page "animal"

I am talking about pages and not posts

Please help
ben

How do I keep sub-category content from showing on the parent category page? For instance, let's say I have Blue Widgets and Blue Widgets With Whatchamajigs. I write a post about Whatchamajigs and the post preview shows up on BOTH the Blue Widgets AND the Blue Widgets With Whatchamajigs sub-category. I don't want it to show up on the main category though.

How do I fix this?

Thanks. Your blog rocks and it's in every one of my feed readers. ;-)

Your code works very well.
Is there a way to print all the subcategory names and, under each of them, a list of the posts included in the subcategory?

I tried to use the code but was unable to get it to work. Can someone give me more insight as to where exactly and how to implement this code?? Thanks!!

Thanks so much. It's works great on my site.

i dont know why the code dont want to be pasted so i made php file and zipped.

you can download from here

Joost de Vald sorry for a lot of comments and if you like you can post the code right, thanks

WOW, this was faster than i was thinking, i made it!
So everybody who wants to show childrencategories even they click on childrencategory here is the code:

category_parent)
$this_category = wp_list_categories('orderby=id&show_count=0&title_li=&use_desc_for_title=1&child_of='.$this_category->category_parent."&echo=0"); else
$this_category = wp_list_categories('orderby=id&show_count=0&title_li=&use_desc_for_title=1&child_of='.$this_category->cat_ID."&echo=0");
if ($this_category) { ?>

you can see it working here, website is not ready yet. "biography" or "available works" are subcategories of artist.

ciao!

code is pasted wrong again, i will try again

category_parent)
$this_category = wp_list_categories('orderby=id&show_count=0&title_li=&use_desc_for_title=1&child_of='.$this_category->category_parent."&echo=0"); else
$this_category = wp_list_categories('orderby=id&show_count=0&title_li=&use_desc_for_title=1&child_of='.$this_category->cat_ID."&echo=0");
if ($this_category) { ?>

Hi Joost
I would love to download that php file that Rade posted on June 30th... It seems the link is not working.. Do you have another link?
Thanks

Thank you very much for this simple yet elegant solution. Saved me hours from messing around with template tags and/or queries.
BTW your site has a very appealing design.

Thank you.. I was looking for the same stuff. Thanx a lot.

Hello, good post, very useful.

I just need help in one issue. How can I add a "follow" tag to these addes subcategories? because with the meta robots plugin, the subcategories within the category pages are setup as "nofollow". I just want to follow the subcategories of each category and no the other main categories.

Hello, this is very good. So I need to know where I have to insert the code and if it works with WordPress 2.8

Thanks a lot

hey, just had an epiphany and got this working right! I wanted to share in case anyone else runs into this:

1. I created a duplicate of sidebar.php and called it sidebar_categories.php.

2. Then I edited my archive.php file and wrapped the call to sidebar in a condition where if the archive type is category, than it will include the alternate sidebar instead.

Here is the code, placed at the bottom of the archive.php file instead of get_sidebar ():

if (is_category()) {
include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/sidebar_categories.php");
} else {
get_sidebar();
}

Problem solved without widgets. BTW, in my previous comment if forgot to mention I was using the plugin called 'Executable PHP widget' to try to turn the snippet into a widget.

Yoast is awesome.

I am searching for code or a plugin that will show the subcategories of a given category's parent. For example, if I have a parent category of "photos" and subcategories of "art," "friends," and "travel," how can I adjust your code so that if I am in the "photos" parent category OR in the "friends" subcategory archives, it will show clickable links for the "art," "friends," and "travel" sections in the sidebar? Thank you so much!! Very helpful!!

hi all, what is the codex for get list link post of the only subcategory and not category mother?
i would get list posts of the subcategory in archive.php page anyone can help me??