mkjar

Sorry after further testing – it seems like I am still having the same issues (I am not sure why I thought it was working)

the is the last dropdown on the page works but it seems to cancel out the earlier ones – also now if I do get the last drop down to work – it doesn’t allow me to use any normal links on the page – it seems to hold the ‘select’ value / address – am going to test it some more.

I think your original idea worked – I was trying earlier to set unique id’s but I didn’t think of resetting the script this is what is working now for me – I am going to test it some more:

<form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" method="get">
<?php wp_dropdown_categories('name=cat-2&id=cat-2&orderby=name&show_option_none=127 title&child_of=127'); ?>
</form>

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var dropdown = document.getElementById("cat-2");
function onCatChange() {
if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value > 0 ) {
location.href = "<?php echo get_option('home');
?>/?cat="+dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;
}}
dropdown.onchange = onCatChange;
--></script>

<form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" method="get">
<?php wp_dropdown_categories('name=cat-1&id=cat-1&orderby=name&show_option_none=Ingredients&child_of=126'); ?>
</form>

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var dropdown = document.getElementById("cat-1");
function onCatChange() {
if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value > 0 ) {
location.href = "<?php echo get_option('home');
?>/?cat="+dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;
}}
dropdown.onchange = onCatChange;
--></script>

thanks for the help!!!

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Thanks! – I am going to try what you suggested

Kust a little more explanation – what I am trying to accomplish is to make a category index with parent category drop downs in my sidebar template file – so that I can have each parent category and its sub-categories neatly and compactly displayed in the sidebar – instead of one super long category drop-down (which would be hard to use because there are so many categories) – it will be broken up into all the parent categories first
It would eventually look like this:

BROWSE POSTS BY CATEGORY TYPES:
————————–
| PHOTOGRAPHY SUBJECT v |
————————–
| LOCATION v |
————————–
| RECIPE TYPE v |
————————–

When I use the below options – the first drop down select works – but the ones following after don’t – they display the categories fine – but the links do not work –

<!-- for drop down select -->
126
<form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" method="get">
<?php wp_dropdown_categories('orderby=name&show_option_none=cat title &child_of=126'); ?>
</form>

127
<form action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" method="get">
<?php wp_dropdown_categories('orderby=name&show_option_none=cat title&child_of=127'); ?>
</form>

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var dropdown = document.getElementById("cat");
function onCatChange() {
if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value > 0 ) {
location.href = "<?php echo get_option('home');
?>/?cat="+dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;
}}
dropdown.onchange = onCatChange;
--></script>

I’ve tried looking into both this: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/is-the-new-dropdown_categories-working?replies=13#post-657759
and
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_categories

so I spent the day looking for some more options –
this one seems deprecated: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-smart-sort/

this one works well:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-snap/
https://www.nateomedia.com/wares/downloads/wordpress/wp-snap/

but unfortunately it only sorts alphabetically by title…

any recommendations?

ok now I am trying to replace it with this:

<ul><?php
$taxonomy = 'link_category';
$title = 'Link Category: ';
$args ='';
$terms = get_terms( $taxonomy, $args );
if ($terms) {
foreach($terms as $term) {
if ($term->count > 0) {
echo '<li><a name="'. $term->name .'">' . $term->name . ' </a>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_links(title_before=<li>&title_after=</li>&category='. $term->name .'); ?>
</ul>
</li>';
} } } ?>
</ul>

But the “&title_after=&category=Blogroll); ?> ” is rendering instead of the links underneath the categories.

Any Ideas???

Every post I see discussing this seems to be quite outdated – am I silly for trying to find a solution this way? I just want to be able to have my client be able to simply add links (which will be acting as community profiles) without having to manage a separate plug-in.

I realized I meant giving a ‘name field’ to the category instead of title.
below:

<?php wp_list_bookmarks( 'orderby=name&order=ASC&limit=-1&show_description=1&category_before=<a name="HOW_DO_I_MAKE_THIS_WORK_category">&category_after=</a>&title_before= &title_after= ' ); ?>

but I still can’t make it work with the current code…

So I got a little further using some code I found today:
The code below makes the link categories into jump links (I am using it in my side bar) – now I just have to figure out how to make the category titles into anchors… in the code above…

<ul><?php
$taxonomy = 'link_category';
$title = 'Link Category: ';
$args ='';
$terms = get_terms( $taxonomy, $args );
if ($terms) {
foreach($terms as $term) {
if ($term->count > 0) {
echo '<li><a href="#'. $term->name .'">' . $term->name . ' </a></li>';
} } } ?>
</ul>

I ended up just removing the function – but i would like to figure out what happened so I wont do it again – any insights?

hmms – now it doesn’t produce any errors but doesn’t produce an image either…

That seems to produce Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’

it worked like a charm! thanks so much!

thanks!

do you mean like this:

<?php
$args = array(
	'post_type' => 'attachment',
	'numberposts' => 1,
	'post_status' => null,
	'post_parent' => $post->ID
	);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
	foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
		echo apply_filters('the_title', $attachment->post_title);
		wp_get_attachment_link($attachment->ID, false);
	}
}
?>

Because now that pulls up only the image title but not the image itself- am I missing somthing?

thanks!

Thanks!

I am still having problems with calling up the full image I am still only getting the thumbnail image. any hints?

‘<?php

$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’,
‘numberposts’ => 1,
‘post_status’ => null,
‘post_parent’ => $post->ID
);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
echo apply_filters(‘the_title’, $attachment->post_title);
the_attachment_link($attachment->ID, false);
}
}

?>
‘

thanks again!