So I'm building a furniture website and products are categorized by product type and age, like this: Product Type (Parent Category) - Sofas (Child Category) - Chairs (Child Category) - Desks (Child Category) Age (Parent Category) - New (Child Category) - Antique (Child Category) So each product gets checked off into both a child category of Product Type and a child category of Age. I want to create a list of the Product Type Parent Categories in my sidebar so that it looks like this: PRODUCT TYPES: Sofas Chairs Desks but when someone hovers over any of the headings (Sofas, Chairs, Desks), a flyout dropdown will then let them select whether they want that product type that is also New or Antique. so basically it'll work something like this: PRODUCT TYPES: Sofas >>> New / Antique / All Chairs >>> New / Antique / All Desks >>> New / Antique / All I'm a little confused because there's two separate parent categories. please advise how I go about about doing this. thanks!
You are probably looking for some advanced scripting skills using Categories and Taxonomies to deliver something similar to the menus you find on eBay. You may be confused, and rightly so. You are going to need to either learn how to set up Taxonomies and use them in concert with Categories, or hire somebody to do it for you.
i believe there's not a simple php script or plugin that does this. Seems like such a basic, and commonly requested feature...