I need to remove the link from my category parent?

Oh…PS: The code at the end of that post is from the file titled header.php from my template.

Thanks again for any help.

I’m also in kind of a hurry since I’m on a deadline.

Can anyone help?

_BUMP_!!!

I need help with the same thing

I mean it seems easy enough – I want to make the parent level unclickable.

I’ve been working on it all day and it there doesn’t seem to be much info on it… just a bunch of people who want to do it but no one knows how.

sigh…

You can try Page Link Plus plugin.. it worked for me to unlink individual parent pages BUT it also removed the menu text style which I wasn’t able to restore

apparently there is this but it seems very complicated to me

Use get_pages() and create your own page menu list using a foreach loop.

Hi vidloader,

I think you’re referring to Page Lists Plus.

The problem that you describe results when a Page is unlinked, which removes its anchor tags, and the theme styling relies on anchor tags being present.

The latest version (v1.1.2, released yesterday), provides an “Unlink using javascript” option, which disables links without removing their anchor tags, so shouldn’t affect styling.

Best practice is to use the original, non-javascript unlink option, and to fix your theme’s styling, but the new feature provides a plan B for those who are unable to do this.

– Tim

We don’t want to unlink parent pages, but parent categories!
Nobody seems to have a clear solution. The best thing I’ve found so far is this: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/199148?replies=3
But also that didn’t work (or I did something wrong).
Can anyone help me (and many others) on this?
Thanks a lot!

Solution to this problem can be found in the comments of this page:
https://bavotasan.com/tutorials/how-to-remove-the-links-to-parent-pages-in-the-wordpress-page-list/

Hi,
I’ve modified the solution suggested above by ETTR to unlink parent categories.

In your theme’s functions.php file, add this function :

<?php

// Supprimer les liens parents dans la liste des catégories
// Remove parents links in categories

function removeCategoriesParentLinks($arg,$addFakeLink) {
if ($addFakeLink==true) {
  $tagStart="<a href=\"javascript:;\">";
  $tagEnd="</a>";
} else {
  $tagStart=$tagEnd="";
}
$cats = wp_list_categories($arg);
$cats = explode("</li>", $cats);
$count = 0;
foreach($cats as $cat) {
if(strstr($cat,"<ul class='children'>")) {
  $cat = explode("<ul class='children'>", $cat);
  $cat[0] = str_replace('</a>',$tagEnd,$cat[0]);
  $cat[0] = preg_replace('/\<a([^>]+)\>/',$tagStart,$cat[0]);
  if(count($cat) == 3) {
    $cat[1] = str_replace('</a>',$tagEnd,$cat[1]);
	$cat[1] = preg_replace('/\<a([^>]+)\>/',$tagStart,$cat[1]);
  }
  $cat = implode("<ul class='children'>", $cat);
}
$cats[$count] = $cat;
$count++;
}
$cats = implode('</li>',$cats);
return $cats;
}
?>

… and then call it with removeCategoriesParentLinks(); instead of wp_list_categories();

Notes :
– You can send wp_list_categories() arguments ;
– the additional argument ‘$addFakeLink’ (=true/false) is used to add fake links <a href="javascript:;">my categorie</a> (useful to
maintain css style)

If you want to keep theme styling use

page list Plus https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/page-lists-plus/

like Technokinetics said. But instead of removing the parent link,

it has a great feature that let you point the parent link to the first child(more logical) or where ever you want.

Good idea, seimec. Like it.

I wanted to remove links for parent categories too! Didn’t like any of the options above, so came up with this. Adapt and use this in your jquery file:

//remove link for parent categories
 	$('ul.children').parent(['li']).find('a:first').removeAttr('href');