Sidebar menu listing contents of current category

  • I have searched the forums and the plugins for hours without finding how I can achieve this. What I want to do is to have a sidebar menu that is a list of all the posts or pages in the category of the currently displayed post or page. I would also like to show the category titles for the other categories.

    Something like this:

    OtherCat1
    OtherCat2
    ThisCat
    –Item
    –Item
    –Item
    OtherCat3
    etc.

    I have come to WordPress from Joomla and this was easy to do in Joomla. So, it should be easy in WordPress. Is there a plugin that does this? If not how could I do it?

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  • Ready for use! : )

    function showcats() {
$cats = get_categories('hierarchical=1');
print '<ul class="catslist">';
foreach($cats as $cat) {
	print '<li>';
	print '<a href="'.get_category_link($cat->term_id).'">'.$cat->cat_name.'</a>';
	if(in_category($cat->term_id, $post)) {
		$psts = get_posts("numberposts=10&cat=".$cat->term_id);
		if(count($psts)) {
			print '<ul class="postslist">';
			foreach($psts as $pst) print '<li><a href="'.get_permalink($pst->ID).'">'.$pst->post_title.'</a></li>';
			print '</ul>';
		}
	}
	print '</li>';
}
print '</ul>';
}
    Thread Starter Flanna

    (@flanna)

    Thanx caugb, should be easy to build this code into a Widget.

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