Comments on: WordPress: Displaying Parent Categories Only & Putting Categories Into A Foreach Loop

By: niv

niv — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:01:22 +0000

Hi, how can I use this code to check if there are category child or not and echo an appropriate response?

I need to output a div only if there are child category for the category I see.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 16 May 2010 03:23:31 +0000

Thanks. I can’t remember what I did because it was a while ago but I did end up solving it. Thank you for your solution awls99. I’ll be sure to try this out in the future.

By: awls99

awls99 — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:45:12 +0000

I’m not sure if this was around at the time of this writting, but this will get you there faster:

$categories=get_categories(array(‘parent’=>0,’exclude’=>’1′));

the array on the function are the arguments that can be passed, I used exclude cat 1 bacouse it’s generaly the “No category” category, the parent => 0 makes it that it only get category withou parents, thus making the if clause you use unencessary. hope it was clear and useful

By: Kamel

Kamel — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:10:11 +0000

Like Jason, I will be pleased to know how to make the parent level of my categories menu unclickable.

Regards

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:42:03 +0000

Nice post. I am wondering if you possibly know how to just disable the category parent links but still display the name while the subcategories remain intact and in normal behavior?