www.blogsome.com

[Eric]

I'm working on agape.blogsome.com, and I'm having trouble with the subcategories. They do have posts in them.

I have the following structure set up for my categories

General
Issues, News, Politics
- Local
That's Funny
What's Happening
- General Announcements
- Kids Calendar
- Youth

I've tried this:
{list_cats children=0 hide_empty=0 optioncount=1 all='All' sort_column='name'}

Which returns just the top level categories in order. Fine.

And this:
{list_cats children=1 hide_empty=0 optioncount=1 all='All' sort_column='name'}

Which returns all categories including subcategories, but they're all sorted as if they were top level categories.

So it comes out looking like this:

General
General Announcements
Issues, News, Politics
Kids Calendar
Local
That's Funny
What's Happening
Youth

What am I missing? I've tried playing with the recurse parameter, and all the standard help at wiki.wordpress.org, and am stuck.

[spoutnik]

I have always the same problem as you. It seems there is no solution on blogsome. I also tried everything I found with no results.
So byebye subcategories in blogsome.
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[jimrb]

I'm having same problem too, have already spent several hours trying to find a solution. If anyone finds a way to solve this please email me at uu110 at earthlink dot net. I suppose until then I will have to convert all sub-categories to top level categories.

Also, if Admin reads this, I hope you will consider installing a spellchecker pluging for wordpress.

Thanks, Jim
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[splash]

Add hierarchical='true' or hierarchical='1' it solved the problem in my case.

"Template Tags/wp list cats" http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats says that the hierarchical parameter can't be used in versions of WordPress prior to 1.5.

Blogsome uses WordPress 1.3 or something, doesn't it? How come it works?

[jimrb]

Splash,

Thanks for the fix, but I can't get it to work for me. Could you telll me how u got it to work on your site? Could you send the link to your site or a blogsome site with sub-cats displaying properly so I can see what it should look like?

This is what I found at the link u gave:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats
"hierarchical
(boolean) Sets whether to display child (sub) categories in a hierarchical (after parent) list. Valid values:

* 1 (True - default)
* 0 (False)

Note: The hierarchical parameter is not available in versions of WordPress prior to 1.5"


and this is what I have that doesn't show sub-cats properly:

<ul><li>Categories:
<ul>
{list_cats hierarchical='true' hide_empty='0' optional='1' all='All' optioncount='1' sort_column='name'}
</ul>
</li></ul>

I also tried ='1' instead of 'true' , but that was no more successful

both cat and sub-cat have posts assigned to them

did I input the argument correctly?

any other suggestions?

also, does anyone know why blogsome doesn't upgrade to wordpress 1.5? or offer both versions? and more plugins?

Thanks, Jim
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[spoutnik]

It works fine for me this time.
I have the following code in my sidebar
<h2>Categories:</h2>
<ul>
{list_cats optional='1' all='All' optioncount='1' sort_column='name' hierarchical='1' children="1"}
</ul>
and it does the job.
It's maybe [b]children="1"[/b] that cause your problem. Don't know
Thanks for the trick anyway
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[shuaibao]

Odd....works for me, maybe you shouldn't tweak the code....

[splash]

As spoutnik said, you need to add children='1' Try it.

[jimrb]

Thanks Spoutnik, that fixed it.

You were right it was the children argument.

I just added/inserted that into my arguments and it worked.

ur welcome for the trick, whatever it was. Now I'm givin' away tricks and don't even know it...I'd be a po ho.

Thanks again, Jim
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[jimrb]

shuaibao, I'm not sure I understand what you mean? could you explain please?