dropdown_cats list of posts within that cat

  • I’m testing to see if WP is the thing for me. I’m now using MT, but still haven’t found out how to get it the way I want it. The idea is very simple, but I haven’t seen it elsewhere yet, and this is all I want. Clean content. I don’t need all the extra’s like a calender or rss etc. etc.
    Perhaps someone could tell me if and how it could be done?
    I would like to have my posts display in two ways. Either per month or per post. I would like to accomplish this by having two dropdown-lists. One which holds the years. Choosing 2003 will give a list of the months in that year. Clicking on the month will give all posts for that month. This is what I have now on my MT-weblog (https://www.spoenk.nl/weblog). But how to do this with WP?
    Secondly I’d like to have another dropdown list which holds the categories. Choosing a category should give the same page, but now with a list beneath that dropdown list of all the single posts that belong to that category. Clicking on a title should display the same page with that particular post and again with the list of posts from that category. I then could also make it work to change the display of the selected post.
    Does this sound strange? I think it’s very userfriendly and simple and it’s really all I want for my weblog for two years now. But how?
    At least I now this is a perfect case for PHP, but I’m just starting to learn PHP and perhaps there is a template or combination of templates to get it to work like I want?
    If someone could help me with this I would be v??ry happy and could leave the fiddling behind and start concentrating on the content again ?? ??

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  • Hi, It is possible to have both the features you need with the template functions that wordpress already has. There is one for dropdown categories and another for dropdown archives. You will need to edit index.php to include these functions is all you have to do.
    <?php dropdown_cats() ?>
    this thread is where I posted a similar question.
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/3242
    If you come over, I may be able to help with the dropdown archives (I can give you what I have working on my site)
    ??

    It is possible with a little code monkeying. Not impossible, and I suspect it will be a lot of fun too ??

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