Comments on: Usable Category Navigation in WordPress Pages

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:19:50 +0000

Yes - what you’re talking about would probably be best handled with tags. What you want to do isn’t truly hierarchical, since everything in the database would have at least one characteristic within each group. This isn’t really something that WordPress natively handles, although you could probably make something work using tags.

By: Ian Page-Echols

Ian Page-Echols — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:54:14 +0000

So, your method works best for a static Pages hierarchy? Do you know if there would be a way to use this for something where you have multiple ways of drilling down? For example, a bird guide. You might want to click on colors, shapes, sizes, regions first, and then when you are on the “colors” page click on one of the other three and so on?

Colors
Shapes
Sizes
Regions

Shapes
Regions
Sizes
Colors

You’d quickly get too many different possibilities to set up as a hard categories.

Thanks, Ian

By: Alistair

Alistair — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:04:27 +0000

Hi. I am hoping to use the Pixeled theme for a site. If you look at the nav on the demo, you'll see it includes fly-overs that show child posts. Would I be able to use your code to do the same thing, but with child pages? Thanks

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:31:51 +0000

Joe, this works great with WP 2.6.2. Thanks — this was exactly what I was looking for!

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:28:12 +0000

The code goes in your theme file sidebar.php or header.php, generally, although it can actually be used in any location in your theme.

Screenshots would be fairly meaningless, as the code doesn’t define anything about the appearance of the code - just the content of the navigation menu! The appearance will vary enormously depending on your specific usage.

This code may also be out of date…I’ll check it and make sure it still works with version 2.7, or modify it so that it does.

By: Addie

Addie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:16:17 +0000

This post is very interesting, however, I do not understand where to add the code you mentioned? and could you please make some screen shots? It would be easier to understand how the look is going to be… Thanks!

By: Grace

Grace — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:32:45 +0000

Seker,
I think Joe has been so clear in his explanation that a .NET developer would certainly have no problems. I only work with HTML and CSS and I could understand with this post easily. Maybe if you had a specific problem?
Thanks Joe!

By: seker

seker — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:11:00 +0000

Hi Joe,

I am a .NET developer and very new in php and wordpress. Can you please describe your solution a step by step way for dummies.
Thanks..

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:01:27 +0000

It is nice working with software with a supportive community. Definitely one of the big advantages to open source software!

Hope it works for you!

I’ve also revised the code above - it may be easier for you to cut and paste (and read) now.

By: Carolyn Phillips

Carolyn Phillips — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:33:06 +0000

Thanks, Joe! I’ll try it now. What I like most about those of us who work with WordPress is we seem to be forming a community. It means so much to me that you explain your code and try to help figure out what’s happening when some newbie screws it up I’ll let you know how it goes!