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Opened 19 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#2481 closed defect (bug) (wontfix)

Cannot display hierarchical categories list of all blog's categories (including children)

Reported by: kwa1975's profile kwa1975 Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: minor Version: 2.0.1
Component: Template Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

When trying to display a hierarchical categories list including children, one could write the following PHP line in his/her theme:

wp_list_cats('hierarchical=1&children=1&child_of=0');

Since the parent category of all the other categories is 0, we had to set child_of to zero.

However, it appears the wp_list_cats() function uses the value 0 of child_of as both an integer value to limit the categories display to a given parent category (here, we want to limit it to category 0) AND as a boolean value, meaning 0 means "false" and the children of category 0 won't be displayed.

To fix this issue, another parameter should be added or a different value for child_of should be used.

Change History (3)

#1 @masquerade
19 years ago

  • Keywords changed from template,theme,category,categories,hierarchical,parent,child,children,child_of,list,display to template theme category categories hierarchical parent child children child_of list display

#2 @MichaelH
19 years ago

Can't duplicate this problem at 2.0.1 or 2.0.1 alpha1 but I may not understand the issue.

Using your example
wp_list_cats('hierarchical=1&children=1&child_of=0')
or
wp_list_cats('hierarchical=1&children=1')
or
wp_list_cats()
returns the same thing--all categories (see Note).

Note: If a parent category has no posts, then neither the parent or its children will display using the above examples. Using hide_empty=0 would force them to display.

Interestingly, this returns no categories;
wp_list_cats('hierarchical=1&children=1&child_of=')

#3 @johnbillion
18 years ago

  • Keywords template theme category categories hierarchical parent child children child_of list display removed
  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Status changed from new to closed

Closing as wontfix for two reasons.

  1. wp_list_cats has been deprecated in favour of wp_list_categories
  2. It's not possible to create a category with an ID of 0 (unless you directly edit the DB, then you're creating your own problems...)
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