Showing Only WordPress Top Categories

Posted by sky | Tags: Php, WordPress

My sub-categories links are not working! I decided to show only the top categories on my sidebar. The following describes how I do it:

Modify function get_categories in category.php

Add show_top option in $defaults.

	$defaults = array('type' => 'post', 'child_of' => 0, 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC',
		'hide_empty' => true, 'include_last_update_time' => false, 'hierarchical' => 1, 'exclude' => '', 
		'include' => '', 'number' => '', 'pad_counts' => false, 'show_top' => false);

Add to the sql where criteria if $show_top is true.

	if ($show_top)
		$where .= ' AND category_parent = 0';

Modify my sidebar.php

<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&hierarchical=0&show_top=true') ?>

I notice the various variables used for the options (eg. $hierarchical) are never initialized anywhere. There is this odd looking statement extract($r); (see the function documentation here), now, I understand how this works! ;)

07 Apr 2007

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