How do I get the Permalink…?

  • Jackson Murphy

    (@jacksonm2factorycom)


    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hey someone…

    How would I dynamically get the Permalink using this code…

    <?php
    $categories = get_categories(‘exclude=9&title_li=’);
    foreach ($categories as $cat) {
    echo “<h2>“.$cat->cat_name.”</h2><p>”.$cat->category_description.”</p>”;
    }
    ?>

    I’m trying to dynamically list categories and the descriptions and the link… in a custom sidebar…

    Thanks!

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  • Why not use wp_list_categories?

    Thread Starter Jackson Murphy

    (@jacksonm2factorycom)

    well, i don’t know… can i get the descriptions? and format the text/lnks?

    See the right side:
    https://springboard.com.s75811.gridserver.com/what-we-do/

    This is more or less hard coded right now…
    And please forgive any messed up stuff- I had to move the site from Yahoo today…

    Thread Starter Jackson Murphy

    (@jacksonm2factorycom)

    Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

    I had the same problem! I wanted to output my sidebar category links using this method instead of wp_list_categories so I could safely add a custom bullet on each <li>.

    To link each one, I used get_category_link with each specific cat_ID and it worked like a charm. Here is my loop:

    <li><h4>Categories</h4>
       <ul><?php $categories = get_categories();
	 foreach ($categories as $cat) { ?>
	    <li class="cat-item">&raquo; <a href="<?= get_category_link( $cat->cat_ID ); ?>"><?= $cat->cat_name; ?></a> <?= '('.$cat->category_count.')' ?></li>
   <?php } ?>
	</ul>
</li>

    Cheers!

    Thread Starter Jackson Murphy

    (@jacksonm2factorycom)

    Thanks Marcy-

    I actually found a PHP/Wordpress programmer to help me with this- We took it a step further by adding the description and changed the color of the link when active… Here’s the code we used…

    <?php

	  $categories = get_categories('depth=1&hide_empty=false&exclude=9,18,27');

        foreach ($categories as $cat) {

         	 // Gets currently selected category id.
			 $id = get_the_ID();
		  	 $category = get_the_category($id);

			 if($category[0]->cat_ID == $cat->cat_ID){
			   if(!is_page()){ $link_color = 'style="color:#007fc2;"'; }

				echo '<h2 ><a href="'.get_option('home').get_option('category_base').'/category/'.$cat->category_nicename.'/"' . $link_color . '>'.$cat->cat_name.'</a></h2>';
			   }
			 else{
			   echo '<h2><a href="'.get_option('home').get_option('category_base').'/category/'.$cat->category_nicename.'/">'.$cat->cat_name.'</a></h2>';
			}

            if ($cat->category_description != '') {
                echo '<p>'.$cat->category_description.'</p>';
            }
			else{
	            echo '<p>&nbsp;</p>';
			}
            if ($cat->category_parent != 0) {
                echo '<p>&nbsp;</p>';

            }
        }
        ?>
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