While you may not be able to integrate your categories list directly into the slider (this is dependent on how the slider is set up and I haven’t used this particular theme), it’s possible to display a list of categories and their links that functions in the way you’ve asked and then apply the same … Read more
Perhaps the previous dev added the posts to the category to achieve a /blog/slug URL? I don’t know of any better way of doing the redesign, if you are wanting to keep the pages the design they currently are. Are there any other posts other than the ones under ‘blog’? If not, you can change … Read more
… in the subcategories I am getting exactly the same results as in the parent category … That is what you told PHP to do. By the time the category.php file is processed, the $wp_query object contains a list of all posts that from the current category. This code throws that object away and replaces … Read more
I suppose there’s a way to remove the offending rewrite rule from the rules array, maybe on generate_rewrite_rules, which would result in I’m not sure what, maybe a 404, or WordPress would try to redirect to the correct URI. or, I came up with this bit of code to check for category requests without category … Read more
Have you tried to empty the database? There are any posts that you fear to loose? First, export the posts that eventuallly you could have in the blog, second, drop all the database tables third, reinstall wordpress and import your posts, try then hope to help
Have you tried: wp_count_terms( ‘category’, array( ‘hide_empty’ => TRUE ) ); You can check out the source here.
You can add a image URL custom field: http://wpcrumbs.com/2013/09/how-to-add-custom-fields-to-categories/
How do I remove the last, empty category without PHP functions like explode or substr? You don’t. Look at the source: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.6.1/wp-includes/category-template.php#L42 The output you see is intended behavior and there is no filter. My guess is that you are trying to use the function for something it is not meant for. You could take … Read more
You can check the category ‘parent’ arribute, and if is 0 the category is a parent one. I’ve also noted some things on your code: When the is is passed get_the_category is unused, but it is called anyway You use get_the_category assuming function are called in the loop, but there is no check for that … Read more
I think I remember seeing this attempt somewhere… If I remember correctly, the solution was to use a custom tax query on the category.php template, but querying the taxonomy (crosspostcategory) FIRST in the “or” statement… So you’d check for the taxonomy first, and then query (tax query) the category taxonomy next in the OR statement. … Read more