Thread: Making another Categories Template to display reduced categories

Making another Categories Template to display reduced categories

Hi,

In the add new page area, you can choose Categories as the template. If this is added as a menu option on let's say the homepage, when you hover that menu button, all categories are displayed in a two column drop down.

I have been trying to make a duplicate of this categories template and when applied and added as a menu option as above, it will drop down on hover but I want it to display a single parent category and all of its subcategories.

To give the exact example, my categories consist of two parent categories and their respective sub categories {Items to trade} and {Services to trade}.

What would I need to do in order to duplicate the categories template (I'm assuming that is tpl-categories.php), call it tpl-services.php and have it as an option I can apply as I did for a categories menu option.

I am fairly au-fait with wordpress but this just seems to be sending me around in circles.

Now, if you would prefer, I can obviously do this in menus by dragging all the subcategories and parents in and arranging them correctly but then the drop down is only single column. Even though I would prefer the cleaner first option as a solution, if thats not possible, then how I can display the menu sub-items in two columns.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Tony