Wordpress Categories / Plugin Help

Hello,

I'm working on a blog that will have a few parent categories, and each parent category will have dozens, maybe hundreds of child categories. I need a way for the categories list to only show the parent categories. If you clicked on a parent category (and/or) visited the parent category page), you would see the child categories for that parent category.

So, for example, the category list on the homepage would be:

Cat 1
Cat 2
Cat 3
Cat 4

If you clicked on Cat 2, you would then see:

Cat 1
Cat 2
-Cat 2.1
-Cat 2.2
-Cat 2.3
-Cat 2.4
-Cat 2.5
-Cat 2.6
Cat 3
Cat 4

How can I do this?

Thanks for the help! (green for anyone who helps. )

~Adam

 

You could try Fold Category List

 

I have used many like this, Fold Category List worked the best for me.

 

Hmmm...OK. I have WP 2.2 and am displaying the categories via the widgets functions. How do I get the Fold Categories plugin to function???

The instructions say:

To use, simply replace the code fragment that looks like this

<?php wp_list_cats ($args); ?>

Code (markup):

with this:

<?php wswwpx_fold_category_list ($args); ?>

Code (markup):

But I can't find those lines of code in sidebar.php for my theme...

Thanks,
Adam

 

If you are displaying categories as a widget it may be in that code.

I do not use widgets so just guessing!

The code:

<?php wp_list_cats ($args); ?> may be <?php wp_list_cats (); ?> (I have not seen the $args in any of mine.)

 

Thank you. Both suggestions were accurate and helpful! I found the code to replace in wp-includes/widgets.php and the function was actually wp_list_categories.

Thanks,
Adam