Creating Custom wp_dropdown_categories

You seem to be mixing up wp_list_categories arguments with wp_dropdown_categories, so i’ve removed them from the code that follows, i’ve also assumed the include argument is suppose to refer to the currently selected item.

For ref:

• wp_dropdown_categories
• wp_list_categories

Suggested code:

global $current_user;

get_currentuserinfo();

$authorcategory = get_user_meta( $current_user->ID, 'authorcategory', true );
$user_term = get_term_by( 'slug', $authorcategory, 'blogs');

// Uncomment the two forward slashes before print for debug
// print '<pre>';print_r( $authorcategory );print '</pre>';

if( $user_term ) {
    $args = array(
        'orderby' => 'name',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'show_last_update' => 0,
        'show_count' => 0,
        'hide_empty' => 0,
        'selected' => 0,
        'child_of' => $user_term->ID,
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'title_li' => __( 'Categories' ),
        'show_option_none' => __('No categories'),
        'taxonomy' => 'blogs'
    );
    wp_dropdown_categories($args); 
} 

You didn’t need either of these two lines..

$my_cat_id = get_cat_id($authorcategory);
$my_cat_name = get_cat_name($my_cat_id);

You already have a complete object of that term in $myterm after you call get_term_by.

Hope that helps..