Categories – defaulting issue and parent/child issue

Oh, and just an “I really wanna” aka ‘wishlist’ item with categories again: It would be great to be able to add the admin option of excluding specific categories from the ‘input form’ side of the category [selection input in my case]. Without having to create/duplicate a whole new View for grabbing the categories from the ‘non-public’ form.

i.e. categories are: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 but I want only certain categories available for public input forms – cats: 1,2,3,7,10.

Selfish perhaps, but I am able then to use cats: 4,5,6,8,9 for different cases but same presentation/display. Saves on CSS classes etc. too ??

Thanks again, Cheers

Thanks Ron, I appreciate that.

I’m glad you worked out the ID problem. That’s a stumper.

I don’t understand the context of “auto-select”. Can you provide more details?

Let’s call the process of choosing a category in the “All Testimonials” list assignment and the choosing of categories in the View editor selection.

With blog posts, assigning a child category does not assign the parent as well. But the query for the parent category will include descendants.

Testimonials behave the same way. Selecting a parent will include all children. Selecting ‘Corporate Client’ should include ‘CEO’, ‘Administration’ and ‘Liaison’.

Not vice versa. Selecting ‘CEO’ will not include testimonials in the parent ‘Corporate Client’ category.

Why select the child if it also includes the parent? Why not just select the parent? Or am I misunderstanding?

Re excluding categories: I call that public and private categories and it is high on the feature request list.

Hi Chris, thanks for you immediate response ??

Regarding the public and private categories, that’s great news, let’s leave that.
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Selection in the View editor is not an issue, I understand choosing the parent includes the children; works great.

You clarification re: “blog post category assignment” and from taking another look in the WP editor at a testimonial, we’ve proven I was plainly confused; a result of 95% of my WP use being pages with almost no blog posts, therefore very little category awareness. I apologize for that.

FWIW confusion was added to by the fact that when the child category is chosen, it then displays out-of-rank in the WP editor category assignment box.

You’ve focused me in on what I’m really looking for, and that is: the display on the testimony as a result of the category selected on the user input form.

By your description, all is functioning well in the normal scheme of things and I understand now that the process of (user) selecting a child category does not assign the parent. But tenatiously…

Outside of Admin, I imagined that as a user, selecting the child ‘HR Manager’ in the drop-down on the Input Form would also display the Parent on the testimonial – i.e. (P)Corporate Client, (C)HR Manager, which you can see on my second testimonial (of course I have assigned both of those in the WP editor now). That is not available from the user form drop-down, but of course it would be from check-boxes, but then with all the categories, there is clutter.

The need for this is that, for example, I have Administrators in two different categories, the clients, and the office I work for.

I’m know it’s possible, the question is whether there is a simple enough function to add that as either an option to admin, or hardwired from functions php.

Until then, I can always add the parent text to each option and remove the parent/child structure, a bit more clutter in the list items but doable.

In any case I appreciate your attention thus far; sorry to have mistakenly put this forward as an issue rather than request.

Thank you.

No worries.

In a nutshell, it sounds like you want:

1. the category selector on the form to look like
Corporate Client > HR Manager
instead of native nesting

Corporate Client
 - HR Manager

2. the category display to look like
Corporate Client > HR Manager
instead of just
HR Manager
or
Corporate Client, HR Manager

IOW, always prefix the child name with the parent name.

Pretty much bang on!

1. The form is okay as it sits, if it could deliver the result in your final example in #2 – less text less complicated, especially for my ESL students
2. display on testimonial: Corporate Client, HR Manager

Good, I’ll add it to the list!

Thanks very much Chris