Show only sub-categories

  • Hello,
    Am new to wordpress it’s really great.But, only problem am facing is that I want to show only subcategories names & links on the page of a parent category and don’t wanna show posts in the category having sub categories.
    for example :-

    a parent category is “songs”
    and subcategories in “songs” category are “pop-songs” & “movie-songs”
    so i wanna show only “pop songs” & “movie songs” names and links when i open link like this.

    https://www.example.com/songs

    and if “pop songs” have any subcategory it should show that sub category when i open link like this.

    https://www.example.com/songs/pop-songs

    I hope i explained what I wanna do.

    Thankyou very much ??

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  • You want pretty links, refer to this article to set up your custom Permalink structure.

    You could make a Page called “Songs” and try this: 

    <ul>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=id&show_count=1
&use_desc_for_title=0&child_of=8'); ?>
</ul>

    Enter the parent-category ID where the ‘8’ is. Refer to this article for more details on “wp_list_categories”.

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    Good luck, let me know how this goes I’ll keep watch on this post. Welcome to the WordPress community.

    Forgot, you wanted the same to work for subcategory pages. The code should be this:

    <?php
if($post->post_parent)
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0"); else
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0");
if ($children) { ?>
<ul>
<?php echo $children; ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>

    Hi, Where abouts do you put that code?

    Hi, Where abouts do you put that code?

    Code could go in the Page Template for that Page.

    Additional Resources:
    Stepping Into Templates
    Template Hierarchy

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