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Don’t know of the javascript non-requrement but might look at https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/tabbed-widgets/

Also look at Otto’s PHP Code Widget and put these two sets of code in separate widgets.

<?php
//get categories then display all posts in each term
$taxonomy = 'category';//  e.g. post_tag, category
$param_type = 'category__in'; //  e.g. tag__in, category__in
$term_args=array(
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC'
);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
if ($terms) {
  foreach( $terms as $term ) {
    $args=array(
      "$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo 'List of Posts in '.$taxonomy .' '.$term->name;
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
        <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
      endwhile;
    }
  }
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

<?php
//alpha list of posts
$args=array(
  'order' => 'ASC',
  'orderby' => 'title',
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

Thanks MichaelH, for the reply.

Tabbed Widgets does exactly what I’ve been looking for except with javascript.

The example you wrote really gives me much understanding in depth of how I need to modify the theme. I really appreciate it. On the other hand, I need to list up WordPress pages, not blog posts. Currently I have assigned categories to the pages with a plugin called, Ninja Page Categories and Tags. Still I need more research on how I can retrieve those pages with specified categories.

I wonder if you have any ideas about it.

Can’t test that right now but

'post_type' => 'post',

for pages would be

'post_type' => 'page',

Wow, great!

It worked like a charm for the second code starting with “//alpha list of posts”. But the first code starting with “//get categories” only lists up the pages in the default category and other categories do not show up.

Is it possible to retrieve all the defined categories and their pages? And hopefully subcategories are indented like this,

Category A
— Page 7
— Page 8
— Category C
—- Page 3
—- Page 6
Category B
— Page 4

I’m afraid I’m asking too much. I hope it doesn’t bother you.

In this case, you have to get all categories, even those categories that have no Posts (yes Posts). So your $args for the get_terms needs to be:

$term_args=array(
  'hide_empty' => false,
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC'
);

OMG, it works, Michael.

Also, just changing ‘orderby’ => ‘name’ to ‘orderby’ => ‘ID’ made it sort by id.

However, it seems the post(page) order is somehow reversed like this, (the category order is fine.)

Category A
— Page 3
— Page 2
— Page 1
Category B
— Page 5
— Page 4
Category C
— Page 2
— Page 7
— Page 6

Also pages with multiple categories do not get sorted. in this example it is ‘Page 2’. I’d like to change it so that it looks like this,

Category A
— Page 1
— Page 2
— Page 3
Category B
— Page 4
— Page 5
Category C
— Page 2
— Page 6
— Page 7

So in order to achieve this, I tried changing this part but with no luck.

$args=array(
    'orderby'            => 'name',
    'order'              => 'DESC',
      "$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
      'post_type' => 'page',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );

(I’m talking about the first block of code you wtote starting with //get categories. )

I also tried using asort($my_query->have_posts() ); but the error message said $my_query->have_posts() is not an array. OK, so if I want to sort and reverse the order, It seems I have to put them into an array first. After that, I can reverse with php sort functions.

The following code is what I got so far. After inserting this code, my web server stoped working. So I cannot test it anymore until it recovers. I hope my code is not responsible for the server down.

<ul>
<?php
//get categories then display all posts in each term
$taxonomy = 'category';		//  e.g. post_tag, category
$param_type = 'category__in'; //  e.g. tag__in, category__in
$term_args=array(
  'hide_empty' => false,
  'orderby' => 'ID',
  'order' => 'ASC'
);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
if ($terms) {
  foreach( $terms as $term ) {
    $args=array(
      "$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
      'post_type' => 'page',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo $term->name;
      $i = 0;
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post() {
		  $permalink_array[$i] = the_permalink();
		  $title_att_array[$i] = the_title_attribute();
		  $the_title_array[$i] = the_title();
		  $i++;
      }
      while ($i) : ?>

        <li><a href="<?php echo $permalink_array[$i]; ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php echo $title_att_array[$i]; ?>"><?php echo $the_title_array[$i]; ?></a></li>
       <?php
      $i--;
      endwhile;
    }
  }
}
?>
</ul>

Add 'order' => 'ASC',

to this:

$args=array(
      "$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
      'post_type' => 'page',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1

Thanks, Michael!

(By the way my server has recovered. It seems my code did something wrong to the server. :))

Adding ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ worked almost perfectly. Still the pages with multiple categories do not get sorted by name.

Let’s say “page D” in the example below is assigned to Category1 and Caegory2 and it looks like this,

Category 1
— Page D (page ID 1)
— Page E (page ID 2)
— Page F (page ID 3)
Category 2
— Page D (page ID 1)
— Page A (page ID 4)
— Page B (page ID 5)
Category 3
— Page C (page ID 6)
— Page G (page ID 7)
— Page H (page ID 8)

They seem to be soted by ID, so I added 'orderby' => 'name', under $args=array( but it didn’t work.

foreach( $terms as $term ) {
    $args=array(
      'orderby' => 'name',

The below code reverses the category order. So, I wonder this kind trick can be applied to the listed pages.

$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
rsort($terms);

If the categories are in the wrong order then you would change the $term_args. If the posts are in the wrong order within each category then add ‘orderby’ => ‘title’ to the $args list.

See https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts for additional arguments.

Thanks, Michael!

'orderby' => 'title' just did the job. I cannot believe I could have done this far. I really appreciate it. This is gonna be the last question hopefully.

Now I’m trying to indent the subcategories looking like this,

Category 1
— Page D
— Page E
— Page F
— Category 3
—- Page C
—- Page G
—- Page H
Category 2
— Page A
— Page B
— Page D

get_category_parents() seem to evaluate if the current category has a parent category or not. So, I inserted if (!get_category_parents($term->id, False)) echo "<ul>"; before while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); and if (!get_category_parents($term->id, False)) echo "</ul>"; after <?php the_title(); ?></a></li> But I don’t see any changes in the actual web page. I also tried get_category_parents($term->name, False) but it doesn’t work either. Do you see what I am missing?

<ul>
<?php
//get categories then display all posts in each term
$taxonomy = 'category';		//  e.g. post_tag, category
$param_type = 'category__in'; //  e.g. tag__in, category__in
$term_args=array(
  'hide_empty' => false,
  'orderby' => 'ID',
  'order' => 'ASC'
);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
if ($terms) {
  foreach( $terms as $term ) {
    $args=array(
      'orderby' => 'title',
      'order' => 'ASC',
      "$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
      'post_type' => 'page',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);

    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      echo $term->name;
	if (!get_category_parents($term->id, False))
		echo "<ul>";
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       <?php
      endwhile;
    if (!get_category_parents($term->id, False))
		echo "</ul>";
    }
  }
}
?>
</ul>