[Ryan Chamberlin]

I have the cmap theme but it only seems to show a drop-down list for categories.
I want to show a list of categories instead.

In my wp page template I tried calling $connections->retrieve->categories(); but it seems that connections is not initialized yet.

Can you point me in the right direction to either initialize the class in my template, or where to add the calls in the connections theme?

By the way, my template checks to see if ‘cn-cat’ is set. If it is, then it shows the page normally. If not, then it only shows the category list (or would if i could figure that part out)

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ryan

The plugin is long initialized before anything is even shown on the screen. The $connections->retrieve->categories(); method only retrieves the raw data. You would have to loop thru the data.

Try this instead:

cnTemplatePart::category( array( 'type' => 'link', 'layout' => 'table', columns => 3 ) );

It’s a beta feature that I haven’t tested much beyond the actual coding of it to see if the basics worked.

[Ryan Chamberlin]

Your code works, but I want more control over the layout.

I actually just figured out my issue; retrieve->categories returns an array.
I expected an object so I was trying to call getName().
Using array keys instead is working!

thanks

[Ryan Chamberlin]

Weird; turns out it does return an object but I had a typo in my code.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Ryan

I’d love to see what you done. Please do share a link. Many thanks!

[Ryan Chamberlin]

I just got done coding an email dump from the database for our admin’s mailing list so I should get the go-live approval today.
I’ll share the link when it’s live.

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