how to display subcategory posts on category page

  • Here is the simplified version of what I am looking for:

    I’m looking to have sub-categoroies show on the categories pages, and on click, it then shows the posts within that sub-category

    https://www.mdrnfashion.com/nba-players/

    A more in-depth description

    So right now the site is structured like:
    =>Home
    = => Category
    = = => Posts that belong to subcategory

    I would like it structured

    =>Home
    = => Category
    = = => Sub-categories
    = = = = > Posts that belong to sub-category.

    I think the issue is that this is just how categories and sub-categories work in WordPress (unfortunately). So I think my categories.php needs to be edited.

    I am trying to mimic LookLive’s structure. If you go to https://www.looklive.com/people/ (category) you will see a number of celebrity pages listed (sub categories of the ‘people’ category). Then, if you click on that a person, let’s say Kanye West ( https://www.looklive.com/people/kanye-west/ ) the Kanye West sub-category page displays all the posts in the Kanye subcategory.

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  • Hi,

    Have you tried this plugin, if it fits with your needs?
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/list-all-posts-by-authors-nested-categories-and-titles/

    Thread Starter syrinx32123

    (@syrinx32123)

    thank you for your reply but that is not what i’m looking to do.
    this image shows best what i’m trying to do

    heirarchy

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    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    You’re right, you’ll be editing your category theme template. Be sure to keep your customized templates in a child theme, or you’ll lose your changes when the theme is updated. Depending on your needs, other templates can be added. How your templates are named dictates when/where the theme uses them. See Template Hierarchy. You can likely achieve everything with a single template, but if a particular term needs special handling, template hierarchy is one way to achieve it.

    You can get appropriate category terms with get_terms(). Use the “parent” argument to get only immediate child sub-categories, but not grandchild sub-sub-categories. The “child_of” argument gets all descendants of a term. To get only top level terms like People or US Cities, supply a 0 (zero) as the parent ID.

    If a term has no descendant terms (or even if it does), you can switch to get_posts() to get all posts assigned that term.

    Getting term ancestors (e.g. grandparent category) is more convoluted than getting children. Each term’s parent ID is part of the term object. With that you get the parent term object, which gives you the grandparent term ID, and so on. When a term’s parent ID is zero, you’ve reached the top level.

    Hi @syrinx32123, How did you solve it? I want to use the same structure for one of my websites

    Thanks in advance
    Pedro

    Thread Starter syrinx32123

    (@syrinx32123)

    I ended up paying a programmer $50 USD to fix it. He did it in under 24 hours. I can share his email address with you if you want.

    Thank you very much @syrinx32123 for your answer. Send me a message to [Email deleted by moderator]

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by bcworkz.
    Thread Starter syrinx32123

    (@syrinx32123)

    I just emailed you.

    I could use this guy as well. But I can’t see how to message / email you.

    Thread Starter syrinx32123

    (@syrinx32123)

    email me at [Email deleted by moderator]

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by bcworkz. Reason: delete email address
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