Plugin: Child Categories

Holy cow, this might be just what I’m looking for to get rid of all kinds of query module usage.

Thanks!

Great ! Thank you. Its working great. Just have two questions:

1. I have 2 weblogs using the same category_group and want to display entries only from 1 weblog….is this possible to define weblog?
2. Is this possible to display all categories and subcategories without defining parent=”18|29” but defining category_group_id so it would display all categories and subcategories within its category_group? That would work great as after adding a new category it will work without adding category_id to parent parameter

Great work! Tank you

Great. I’ll have to check this out. I’ve been hacking subcategories to suit my purposes for a long time.

Thanks for your hard work!

-Shawn

Hi,

I have 2 weblogs using the same category_group and want to display entries only from 1 weblog….is this possible to define weblog?

Currently it is not possible, but it seems that to add “weblog” parameter should not be complicated. I will consider this suggestion when releasing a new version.

Is this possible to display all categories and subcategories without defining parent=”18|29” but defining category_group_id so it would display all categories and subcategories within its category_group? That would work great as after adding a new category it will work without adding category_id to parent parameter

Have you considered exp:weblog:categories tag? This tag has “category_group” parameter and “style” parameter which accepts value “nested”. It seems that exp:weblog:categories tag can display all categories and subcategories within its category_group - exactly as you want.

Hi Thank you, Im now using exp:weblog:categories tag but im not getting exacly the results I want. I need to display all categories and subcategories within categories and as well titles of entries from these subcategories

So my code looks like this

{exp:weblog:categories category_group="2"  weblog="server_product" }      
 <li><a href="http://{site_url}index.php/servers/category/C{category_id}">{category_name}</a>


{exp:weblog:entries weblog="server_product" category_id="{category_id}"}
{title}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

</li>
{/exp:weblog:categories}

Its displaying properly all categories and subcategories, but its displaying all entries under every category and subcategory….like:

cat1
entry1
entry2
entry3

sub1
entry1
entry2
entry3

sub2
entry1
entry2
entry3

cat2
entry1
entry2
entry3

sub21
entry1
entry2
entry3

sub22
entry1
entry2
entry3

where its should be:

cat1
sub1
entry1
entry2

cat2
sub21
entry3

Do you have maybe idea how to fix it? Thank you

Hi combinedmedia,

Try the following code:

{exp:weblog:categories category_group="2"  weblog="server_product"}
{exp:child_categories parent="{category_id}" child_categories_sort_by="custom" child_categories_sort_direction="asc" show_empty="no" entries_sort_by="date" entries_sort_direction="asc" entries_limit="5" site="1"}

{parent_category_start}
<a href="http://{site_url}index.php/servers/category/C{parent_category_id}">{parent_category_name}</a>

{parent_category_end}

{child_category_start}
<a href="http://{site_url}index.php/servers/category/C{child_category_id}">{child_category_name}</a>

{child_category_end}

{entries_start}
<a href="http://{site_url}index.php/servers/category/C{child_category_id}/{url_title}/">{title}</a>

{entries_end}


{/exp:child_categories}
{/exp:weblog:categories}

Not sure it will work, but it seems worth to try.

Hi Thank you, its working but unfortunatelly it still displays entries from 2 weblogs, like there is no parametr weblog. I was trying a lot of combinations and nothing is working. I will probably create a new category group and connect them to my weblog, so it will display properly. Thank you very much for help!

Hi,

If it is not an emergency situation, and you can wait a day or a couple of days, I will add “weblog” parameter to Child Categories plugin.

Its not emergency, so great I will wait. Thanks so much!

Just updated the plugin to version 1.1.

In version 1.1 two new things are added:

1) parameter “weblog”: it allows you to specify weblog name. You can use the pipe character to get entries from any of those weblogs, e.g. weblog=”weblog1|weblog2|weblog3”. Or you can add the word “not” (with a space after it) to exclude weblogs, e.g. weblog=”not weblog1|weblog2|weblog3”;

2) variable {weblog_short_name}: it outputs short name of the weblog. If you wish to output full name, use variable {weblog_name}.

If you use parameter “weblog”, then the search will go only through the specified weblogs. That means that the output of {entries_total} variable will be accordingly affected: entries which are posted into weblogs not included by “weblog” parameter will not be counted.

That is working perfect! Thank you, great work!

@Laisvunas, what a great plugin, been after something like this for too long!!

Is it possible to also get:

{category_image} {category_description}

as you can with exp:weblog:categories?

If not could you add this for us?

Laisvunas following my last post this is what I need to achive, the problem is if the client adds a catagory the we’ll need to amend this code as the IDs are hard coded so it aint great:

{exp:query sql = ” SELECT cat_id AS child_category_id, cat_name AS child_category_name, cat_url_title AS child_category_url_title, cat_description AS child_category_description, cat_image AS child_cat_image,
cat_order AS child_cat_order
FROM exp_categories WHERE parent_id = ‘11’ ORDER BY cat_order”}

child ID: {child_category_id}

child Name: {child_category_name} child Title: {child_category_url_title} child Image: {child_cat_image} child Description: {child_category_description}

{/exp:query}

If anyone has a better idea how to achieve this please let us know, the worknig example can be seen here http://probel.previewurl.net/ click on the left nav to get a pop up whic will display child catagories.

Good work!

My only question is: can I use custom fields in the outputted results?

Right now it’s outputting {title}, but I’d like to include some of my weblog custom fields in the results. Once I get that up and running, my goal of this week has been completed 😊

thanks already for this great plugin!

UPDATE:

I managed to get really close to my goal, with following code:

{exp:child_categories parent="6" child_categories_sort_by="custom" child_categories_sort_direction="asc" show_empty="yes" entries_sort_by="date" entries_sort_direction="asc"}
{parent_category_start}

{parent_category_end}


{child_category_start}
        <h2>{child_category_name}</h2>

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="menuinbeeld" dynamic="off" category="9"}
            <div class="menuitem">
                  <div class="menutitle">{title}</div>
                  <div class="menupicture">{menu_picture}</div>
                  <div class="menudesc">{menu_description}</div>
                  <div class="menuprice">{menu_price} €</div>
            </div>  
{/exp:weblog:entries}            
            
{child_category_end}


{entries_start}


{entries_end}



{/exp:child_categories}

Now you can see I hard-coded the category to “9”. This however, should be dynamically changed to {child_category_id} but just replacing the “9” with {child_category_id} does not work.

I also tried php but it didn’t work. Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this, I bet this will be useful for many people out there trying to do the same thing.

UPDATE2:

the following looks logic, but doesn’t work either :(

{child_category_start}
        <h2>{child_category_name}</h2>
                       
{assign_variable:jorre="{child_category_id}"}

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="menuinbeeld" dynamic="off" category="{jorre}"}
            <div class="menuitem">
                  <div class="menutitle">{title}</div>
                  <div class="menupicture">{menu_picture}</div>
                  <div class="menudesc">{menu_description}</div>
                  <div class="menuprice">{menu_price} €</div>
            </div>  
{/exp:weblog:entries}            
            
{child_category_end}