Thread: Categories and post form

Categories and post form

on the question of categories.... my site has 5 sub-domains, call them "super-categories" FREE ads/autos/homes/jobs/services/adult, is there a way of making the post form show just them, and when the ad is posted, to place the ad into the relevant table on the Db??? as the drop downs are too long and look messy, and I want it all to look clean, simple and streamlined, I have to approve the ad anyway so I can choose an appropriate "sub" category at that stage. hope you can understand what I am trying to say??? does anyone have any ideas about this???

Re: Categories and post form

Not sure if you found a solution for this yet, but I'll give it a try...

Again, in post-form.php

Depending on how many categories you have, you could just use exclude option for the ones you don't want to show:

<?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_option_none=Select One&orderby=name&order=ASC&exclude=category 1,category 2,category 3, &hide_empty=0&hierarchical=1'); ?>

Category 1 in this case would just be the number 1 and so on.

Although, if you have a large amount of categories, then you probably just want to use the include option, so that you don't have to exclude 1,000 categories.

<?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_count=0&hide_empty=0& orderby=name&order=asc include=category 1, category 2, category 3,&number=0&hierarchical=1'); ?>

I think you'd want to go with the latter. I'm pretty tired, but it looks right to me. Let me know if you have any questions or it doesn't work for you.