[James]

Hi,

I have been attempting to get the template slim-plus to display the categories in a checkbox type list. I came across a checkbox and radio type option in the class.template-parts.php file under the categoryInput function so I tried changing the ‘type’ to “checkbox” in the categorySelect function in slim-plus.php, this made the categories display in a checkbox list but when selecting multiple checkboxes and hitting search only the lowest checkbox stays checked and is searched.

I’m just wondering if there is a way to get this to search for multiple categories at a time and if the checkboxes and radio outputs are a new feature that hasn’t been released or perfected yet, as i could not find any other info on them?

Sorry if the question didn’t make total sense, i’m still repetitively new to wordpress and PHP and would appreciate any help at all.

Cheers,

James

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

I added these with only the most basic debugging; ie didn’t fatally crash PHP. Anyway, I think, to fix the issue with checkboxes you’ll name to change the name attribute here. Changing it from name="cn-cat" to name="cn-cat[]" will fix it. That would result in a search where any entries assigned to any of the selected categories to be returned as a result. Changing the name to `name=”cn-cat-in[]” would result with with a search where an entry must be assigned to all the selected categories.

Hope that helps, let me know.

fyi, these functions will likely be going away at some point in favor of ones that use the core WP Walker class. The next update to the Widget Pack uses the replacement for the category list function (just added yesterday).

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