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List All Subcategories

Sometimes you just need a list of all child categories only and nothing else. The requirements of projects can be very diverse, as the solution can, and in my case it is a small code snippet that takes care of the output of Subcategories. Something for you to play, improve and expand. Enjoy!

$echo = '
    ' . "\n";
$childcats = get_categories('child_of=' . $cat . '&hide_empty=1');
foreach ($childcats as $childcat) {
    if (1 == $childcat->category_parent) {
        $echo .= "\t" . '
  • ';
        $echo .= $childcat->cat_name . '';
        $echo .= '
    • ' . "\n";
    }
}
$echo .= '
' . "\n";
echo $echo;

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3 responses to “List All Subcategories”

  1. Tomáš Kapler Avatar
    Tomáš Kapler

    Ehm, maybe I’m stupid, but why don’t you use http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories? It got child_of as well.
    Or you mean to list only subcategories without parent categories, but mixed together? I would not much understand this need, but again it could be done with wplist categories and some simple regexp, what would probably be a bit faster than this.

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  3. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Hi Tomáš, the code is only to display the subcategories, nothing more.