Reload page with posts from a dropdown
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Hello,
I am wondering it is possible to show a dropdown list populated by post tags, that loads a selection of posts on the same page, without taking the user to a new page. Currently I am trying this (taken from wphacks):Located in functions.php
function dropdown_tag_cloud( $args = '' ) { $defaults = array( 'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45, 'format' => 'flat', 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC', 'exclude' => '', 'include' => '' ); $args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults ); $tags = get_tags( array_merge($args, array('orderby' => 'count', 'order' => 'DESC')) ); // Always query top tags if ( empty($tags) ) return; $return = dropdown_generate_tag_cloud( $tags, $args ); // Here's where those top tags get sorted according to $args if ( is_wp_error( $return ) ) return false; else echo apply_filters( 'dropdown_tag_cloud', $return, $args ); } function dropdown_generate_tag_cloud( $tags, $args = '' ) { global $wp_rewrite; $defaults = array( 'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45, 'format' => 'flat', 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC' ); $args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults ); extract($args); if ( !$tags ) return; $counts = $tag_links = array(); foreach ( (array) $tags as $tag ) { $counts[$tag->name] = $tag->count; $tag_links[$tag->name] = get_tag_link( $tag->term_id ); if ( is_wp_error( $tag_links[$tag->name] ) ) return $tag_links[$tag->name]; $tag_ids[$tag->name] = $tag->term_id; } $min_count = min($counts); $spread = max($counts) - $min_count; if ( $spread <= 0 ) $spread = 1; $font_spread = $largest - $smallest; if ( $font_spread <= 0 ) $font_spread = 1; $font_step = $font_spread / $spread; // SQL cannot save you; this is a second (potentially different) sort on a subset of data. if ( 'name' == $orderby ) uksort($counts, 'strnatcasecmp'); else asort($counts); if ( 'DESC' == $order ) $counts = array_reverse( $counts, true ); $a = array(); $rel = ( is_object($wp_rewrite) && $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) ? ' rel="tag"' : ''; foreach ( $counts as $tag => $count ) { $tag_id = $tag_ids[$tag]; $tag_link = clean_url($tag_links[$tag]); $tag = str_replace(' ', ' ', wp_specialchars( $tag )); $a[] = "\t<option value='$tag_link'>$tag ($count)</option>"; } switch ( $format ) : case 'array' : $return =& $a; break; case 'list' : $return = "<ul class='wp-tag-cloud'>\n\t "; $return .= join(" \n\t ", $a); $return .= " \n\n"; break; default : $return = join("\n", $a); break; endswitch; return apply_filters( 'dropdown_generate_tag_cloud', $return, $tags, $args ); }
With this code in the template file:
<select name="tag-dropdown" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;"> <option value="#">Tags</option> <?php dropdown_tag_cloud('number=0&order=asc'); ?> </select>
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