Martin Black

Solved as follows:

function get_positional_categories() {
global $wpdb;
$poscats = $wpdb->get_results("
    SELECT name,term_id FROM <code>wp_terms</code>
    WHERE name LIKE '\_%';
");
$count = 0;
foreach ($poscats as $pcat) {
    $poscats[$count] = $pcat->term_id;
    $count++;
}
return $poscats;
}

Managed to achieve this as follows:

<?php
				  $pages = get_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=');
				  $content .= "<span>";
					foreach ($pages as $pagg) {
					$content .= '<a href="'.get_page_link( $pagg->ID ).'">'.$pagg->post_title.'</a>'; }
					$content .= "</span>";
					echo $content;
				  ?>

Solved using Category Importer

Excellent. Thanks!

I believe that this requires a join between wp_posts table and the wp_postmeta table wherein lies _wp_attached_file though I’m not sure if this correct. Or how to do it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

I have solved this by simply using the query_posts to exclude categories. My author.php now has this line just before the loop starts:

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-69,-68'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Any guidance on turning it into a function? Would I use a filter on the function get_the_category()?

Just in case anyone was wondering, I managed to fix this issue with this amended SQL in my functions.php

function get_category_tags($args) {
	global $wpdb;
	$tags = $wpdb->get_results
	("
	SELECT DISTINCT terms2.term_id as tag_id, terms2.name as tag_name, null as tag_link, t2.count as post_total
		FROM
			wp_posts as p1
			LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships as r1 ON p1.ID = r1.object_ID
			LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy as t1 ON r1.term_taxonomy_id = t1.term_taxonomy_id
			LEFT JOIN wp_terms as terms1 ON t1.term_id = terms1.term_id,

			wp_posts as p2
			LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships as r2 ON p2.ID = r2.object_ID
			LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy as t2 ON r2.term_taxonomy_id = t2.term_taxonomy_id
			LEFT JOIN wp_terms as terms2 ON t2.term_id = terms2.term_id

		WHERE
			t1.taxonomy = 'category' AND p1.post_status = 'publish' AND terms1.term_id IN (".$args['categories'].") AND
			t2.taxonomy = 'post_tag' AND p2.post_status = 'publish'
			AND p1.ID = p2.ID
		ORDER BY post_total DESC
	");
	$count = 0;
	foreach ($tags as $tag) {
		$tags[$count]->tag_link = get_tag_link($tag->tag_id);
		$count++;
	}
	return $tags;
}

Thats done it. thanks ??

Hmm, adding those tags into the Loop caused an error in Syntax on Line 27.

I added this:
<p align="right">Last edited by <?php the_modified_author(); ?> on <?php the_modified_time('Fj, Y'); ?>at <?php the modified_time('g:i a'); ?> </p>