[Julie]

Hello,

I’m using Connections as a business address book for our community band. Some address are for internal use, and some we want to be available to the public.

I’m working on a template page where, in my perfect world, would have a list of a few categories in the widget, (styled to match my site,) with category descriptions, and when clicked re-populate the post section of that page with the contacts.

I’m trying to wrap my brain around how I am going to approach this, I realize I can use the private/public options but the widget has no filters or options and shows categories with 0 in it. Is there a snippet of code I can use in my template that shows categories but allows me to customize it?

I’m very good with CSS but don’t bother with it until I get the output I want. Here is my testing page
http://jhcband.org/test-page
The post side of the page is filtered by one category at the moment, I want the widget (right) to show only 5 or six of those categories and I will style them to look like the log in and contact blocks above it with the category description in the block.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appropriated.

Thank You,
Julie

[Julie]

I figured it out!

    <?PHP
	{
		global $connections;
		echo $before_widget;

		$atts = array(
			'type' => 'link',
			'show_count' => TRUE,
			'show_empty' => FALSE,
			);

		$connections->template->category( $atts );

		echo $after_widget;
	}
   
 	?>

Sometimes I can’t see the forest for the trees.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 9 months ago by Julie. Reason: typos

[Julie]

I deleted

global $connections;
echo $before_widget;
echo $after_widget;

from my page and it seems to work.

I’m looking for the correct thing to add to the array, or my code to filter only public entries so that only public entries are counted, and any categories with only private entries are hidden.

OR

Add to my array which category IDs to display.

I’m weeding through code on the pages to learn/see what needs to be coded, but I’m out of time today. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You,
Julie

[Steven Zahm]

@ Julie

Apologies for the delay … I’ve had a higher workload than normal…

You can add parent_id to the array. It’ll accept the category IDs of root parent categories to include in the list. The code can be found here:
https://github.com/shazahm1/Connections/blob/0.7.9.3/includes/template/class.template-parts.php#L803

This will only work for root parent categories though. What I mean by root parent is a category that is not a child of another category. Hope that makes sense!

As for counts, right now, those counts include every entry regardless if it is unlisted/private or in the moderation queue. So it’s best to simply hide the count if showing them is going to cause confusion for your users.

Hope that helps!

[Julie]

Thank you!!

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