Thread: Parent- & Sub-Category Dropdown Menus

Parent- & Sub-Category Dropdown Menus

From this thread: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=209#p4264

I have cities/regions as parent categories, each with a lot of sub-categories beneath. I'd like to be able to have TWO dropdown menus on the listing submission form, one for the parent (city) and one for the sub-categories beneath.

I think this function might do it, but I'm not really knowledgable enough to make it work. Anyone?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Ref ... categories

Re: Parent- & Sub-Category Dropdown Menus

ClassiPress uses the wp_list_categories function

Your customization would take some work more on the backend and deciding how you'd like to save the 2nd category listing. The current category dropdown uses the standard wordpress category functionality which is easy. It's the 2nd dropdown you'd have to create a custom field for since it WordPress can't handle it natively.

You would need to create another wp_list_categories function and use the "child_of" parameter set to 1 (i believe) which will only show sub-categories.

Then modify the current wp_list_categories function and use the "depth" parameter set to 1 to exclude sub-categories.

You'll then need to edit the post_form.php file and save it into a new custom field. Then add it to the appropriate places to display on the pages.

If you aren't good with coding, I recommend you hire someone to do this mod for you.

Re: Parent- & Sub-Category Dropdown Menus

How would I designate what parent the sub-cats in the list will belong to since the user will be choosing that in the previous dropdown?

Re: Parent- & Sub-Category Dropdown Menus

Thanks. I'm NOT good with coding, but I do want to learn to do these things myself. I generally take way longer than I should because I like to do it myself. But I have already added some fields to the form so I can do that, and I've looked at the code for that WP function.

Re: Parent- & Sub-Category Dropdown Menus

What would be really perfect is instead of a series of dropdown boxes, if it could be breadcrumb navigation like the front page, but I don't guess that's possible.