“Reversable” and “Re-useable” Subcategories (or other taxonomic structure)

The only possible way I can think to achieve this would be through getting neck deep in rewrite rules. You would have to flip your actual category structure around so that ‘exotic’ is the parent category, with two subcategories, ‘design’ and ‘travel’. Obviously you would put any posts you wanted in /design/exotic, into /exotic/design, same … Read more

How to list only child categories?

The following code is to display the subcategory instead of parent . I am not sure this is the one as you are trying too. <ul> <?php $catsy = get_the_category(); $myCat = $catsy->cat_ID; wp_list_categories(‘orderby=id&child_of=”.$myCat); ?> </ul>

How to prevent empty category to list content of sub categories?

Assuming the context here is filtering out posts from category C when viewing the category B posts archive, you could accomplish this by using the query_posts keyword category__in (which does not include posts from child categories) instead of cat (which does include posts from child categories). Just add it in archive.php or category.php depending on … Read more

Category vs Tag vs Table

I’m sorry I can’t add to the comment section due to reputation privileges. If you feel that the default combination of Categories, Tags and Post Types is too limiting to link your content together logically, you should consider Custom Taxonomies. You can still use tags to link together articles about a common subject, and use … Read more

Show thumbnail for category?

There’s a great plugin called Taxonomy Images. It lets you set one image per category that you can then access in all sorts of ways. It’s a little funky in that it uses some custom filters to return the images, but the documentation is pretty good and you should be able to figure it out. … Read more

How to show in search results posts with a particular tag in a particular category?

Given the way categories & tags are setup in WordPress this would not work from a logical standpoint. The issue here is that tags have no way to be connected directly to a category, they are mutually exclusive from each other. The subcategories would work because a subcategory is directly related to is parent category … Read more