Problem with categories menu in Minima Plus

Just a bit more info if it helps:

The categories work correctly when I am on the home page. The problem is when I move to a category page, for instance:

https://www.citizenofthemonth.com/category/relationships/

Then, nothing loads if I want to switch to a new category. If I go back to the homepage, things work again.

Thanks.

That’s really weird. Does it still do that if you switch to another theme? (Provided another theme has the drop downs of course…) One thing I noticed is that the first time you go, it changes the url to the right thing. The next time it just adds /?cat=2&submit=GO to the end (depending upon what cat# you are trying to go to of course) so it is still actually trying to pull up the old category name. I noticed that the monthly archives don’t do that. Can you maybe check the code there and see if there is some difference that could be causing it?

Check Theron’s site for the theme, I remember something in the comments about a fix for the drop down cats in that theme.

What code shows in the sidebar? I just tried adding the following code to my site and it works fine.

<li id="categories"><?php _e('Categories:'); ?>
<ul><li>
<form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method="get">
<?php dropdown_cats(); ?>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="view" />
</form>
</li></ul>
</li>

Thanks, I’ll go check it out…

It works now. Much appreciated. In case anyone else has the problem, the solution is the code above — or you can go to this site that gives specific instruction on how to fix the bug.

https://www.sebastian-heid.de/artikel/2005/03/05/get-theme-minimaplus-work-properly/

If I’m not mistaken, the built in drop down cats has some shortcomings, especially regarding parent/child cats.
https://www.typedby.com/archives/category/word-press/
However this plugin does a great job of handling the issue.
just a fyi.
Glad you found the problem. Personally, when I first adopted that theme, I couldn’t figure out how to fix the problem, so I just did a way with it, seeing I don’t have many cats for that blog. (I’ve since moved on to attempting my own theme for that one…)