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List Title of posts in subcategories

Example:

Sports is a parent category. Soccer is a sub cat of Sports, as is Baseball. I have multiple posts in each (sub) category, and I need the title of those posts to appear as links, grouped by their sub category - with a heading of that sub category name.

This page should display all subcategories which are under the Sports parent category. This is not fixed- it needs to be flexible, so it can't be hard coded. Even a query for the subcats can't be hard coded because if there are no posts for Soccer, then soccer shouldn't show up. If someone starts a frisbee team tomorrow, it needs to show up automatically.

Something like the following:



<h2>Sports</h2>



<h4>Baseball</h4>

<ul>

<li><a href="#">Baseball Team A</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Baseball Team B</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Baseball Team C</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Baseball Team D</a></li>

</ul>



<h4>Frisbee</h4>

<ul>

<li><a href="#">Frisbee Team A</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Frisbee Team B</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Frisbee Team C</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Frisbee Team D</a></li>

</ul>



<h4>Soccer</h4>

<ul>

<li><a href="#">Soccer Team A</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Soccer Team B</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Soccer Team C</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Soccer Team D</a></li>

</ul>

My current code, which I've peiced together based on varius help forms and articles is this:



<?php

global $options;

foreach ($options as $value) {

    if (get_option( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $$value['id'] = $value['std']; }

    else { $$value['id'] = get_option( $value['id'] ); }

    }

?>

<?php



if ( is_page('Sports') ) { ?>



<?php query_posts('showposts=0&cat=6'); ?>



     <?php global $post; $count = 1;

	while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>

	<?php $category = get_the_category();

		 // Get the ID of a given category

    $category_id = get_cat_ID( $category[0]->cat_name );



    // Get the URL of this category

    $category_link = get_category_link( $category_id ); ?> 

    

			<h4> <a href="<?php echo $category_link; ?>" title="<?php echo $category[0]->cat_name; ?>"><?php echo $category[0]->cat_name; ?>

			<span>view only <?php echo $category[0]->cat_name; ?> &rarr;</span>

			</a> 

			

			</h4>

		<ul>

 			<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>

  			<?php // This is the implementation of custom write panels.

 			$data = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'module', true ); ?>

		 	<span class="listing-entry organization"><?php echo $data[ 'organization' ]; ?></span>

		 	<span class="read-more">(read more)</span>

		 	</a></li> 

		</ul>

<?php endwhile; ?>

    

<?php  } ?>

And what comes out is each listed title is within it's own <ul>, so rather than all the soccer posts listed together, they are separate, as seen here: http://yatescommunitycenter.org/dev/sports .

Meredith Marsh | 12/27/09 at 8:55pm | Edit

(2) Possible Answers Submitted...

Last edited:
12/27/09
11:19pm

Ron Rennick says:

Starting at

if ( is_page('Sports') ) { 

$cat = 6; //sports category id

$children = get_term_children( $cat );

if( is_array( $children ) && !empty( $children ) ) {

  foreach( $children as $child ) {

    query_posts( 'cat=' . $child );

    if( have_posts() ) { ?>

        <h4><a href="<?php echo get_category_link( $child ); ?>"><?php echo get_cat_name( $child ); ?></a></h4>

<ul>

<?php while( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>



  			<?php // This is the implementation of custom write panels.



 			$data = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'module', true ); ?>



		 	<span class="listing-entry organization"><?php echo $data[ 'organization' ]; ?></span>



		 	<span class="read-more">(read more)</span>



		 	</a></li> 

<?php endwhile; ?>

</ul>

<?php

      }

    }

  }

}

?>

The post limit on this will be whatever is set in your reading settings for the number of posts to show. If you want to show just 4 post titles per category then add

showposts=4

to the query_posts.

Previous versions of this answer: 12/27/09 at 11:19pm

Last edited:
12/28/09
9:37am

Utkarsh Kukreti says:

<?php



if(is_page('Sports'))

{

	$cat = 'Sports';

	$catID = get_cat_ID($cat);

	echo '<h2>' . $cat . '<h2>';

	$subcats = get_categories('child_of=' . $catID);

	foreach($subcats as $subcat)

	{

		echo '<h4><a href="' . get_category_link($subcat->cat_ID) . '">' . $subcat->cat_name . ' <span>view only ' . $subcat->cat_name . ' &rarr;</a></h4>';

		echo '<ul>';

		$subcat_posts = get_posts('cat=' . $subcat->cat_ID);

		foreach($subcat_posts as $subcat_post)

		{

			echo '<li>';

			$postID = $subcat_post->ID;

			echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($postID) . '">';

			echo get_the_title($postID);

			echo '<span class="listing-entry organization">';

			$postmeta = get_post_meta($postID, 'module', true);

			echo $postmeta['organization'];

			echo '</span><span class="read-more">(read more)</span>';

			echo '</a>';

			echo '</li>';

		}

		echo '</ul>';

	}

}



?>