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Parent Category Page - List child categories excerpts

Hello all,

I am not fantastic at describing what I need, but here goes :)

This is using category.php file.

When clicking a top-level category page link on my menu I want category.php to display child and grand children category headers along with 5 titles and excerpts of each child and grand children category in that top-level category but no top-level category posts.

So if someone clicks a menu item that is a top level category it displays each child and grand child category header, 5 titles & excerpts but I do not want to show posts from the top level category (I really want the top level to act as a gateway to it's children & grand children.)

Then when someone clicks either a category header from one of the child or grand child categories it takes them to a page listing all posts from that child or grand child category (showing something like this - http://paste-it.net/public/j635f6b/). That paste-it is my current category.php which displays posts from any category (top-level, child & grand child) when a category menu link is clicked.

Can anyone make sense of my nonsense and help?

Look forward to hearing from you.

All the best,
Karl

Karl | 04/08/10 at 1:55pm | Edit

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Last edited:
04/08/10
2:19pm
Erez S says:
so you don't want the category page to show posts from the category itself,but only from it's child category and grand children category?
fix me if i'm wrong
- 04/08/10 2:28pm
  
  Karl says:
  Yes that is correct. Essentially, when a user clicks on ,say, Arts & Entertainment they are shown a page that shows - for example - music, arts, theatre child cats with post excerpts. Like this mock-up I did: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=10ogrr8&s=5
  
  then when they click child cat it takes them to my current category.php as per my paste-it code.
  
  Attached Image
- 04/08/10 2:40pm
  
  Erez S says:
  replace line 49:
```
<?php $b = 1; $query2 = new WP_Query();$query2->query('posts_per_page=5&cat=' . get_query_var('cat')); ?>
```
  with this:
```
<?php 

$category = get_the_category(); 

$cat_id = $category[0]->cat_ID;

$args=array(

  'child_of' => $cat_id,

  'type' => 'post'

  );

$categories=get_categories($args);

$str = '';

foreach($categories as $category) { 

    $str .= $category->term_id.',';

} 

$str = substr($str, 0, -1);

$b = 1; $query2 = new WP_Query();$query2->query('posts_per_page=5&cat=' . $str);

?>
```
  enjoy
- 04/08/10 2:59pm
  
  Karl says:
  Thanks for that but that is not quite what I am after. The image I attached is what I want or my category landing page. the code I posted is what I want to use for a gateway from category.php.
  
  basically I just want to display child & grand child categories on category.php showing 5 posts from each child/grand of top level category.
  
  Thanks anyway
- 04/08/10 3:11pm
  
  Erez S says:
  the code i gave you is showing only child category's posts and grand children's posts on the category page,what is the problem?
- 04/08/10 3:27pm
  
  Karl says:
  Hi erez213,
  
  Sorry, not great at explaining.
  
  I think you based your code to work on my slider but I need to show each child/grand independently of each other like my image shows. Can that be done?
  Please ignore the category.php I posted. Can you create a category.php just based on your code but like I want in my image? ie. category, title excerpt then the next 3 titles but for each child of top-level category.
  
  Thank you
- 04/08/10 3:32pm
  
  Erez S says:
  ok,now i get it,but i have to go to sleep,if nobody will do it to you intil tommorow i will do it
- 04/08/10 3:35pm
  
  Karl says:
  Thank you erez213,
  
  I wish I was more articulate when it comes to explaining what I need in code.
  
  Thanks for your patience.
- 04/08/10 4:59pm
  
  Karl says:
  Not sure if this is of any help, but this is the code I use to create a box on my homepage. You may be able to convert this to work dynamically with child / grand cats.
  
  http://paste-it.net/public/u587351/
  
  One of these creates as 1 box like in this image:
  
  Attached Image
- 04/09/10 1:17pm
  
  Karl says:
  Hi erez213,
  
  I wondered if you were able to help further?
  
  Thanks