I am amused at the Ads that Google Adsense places on my site, and the one that has kept coming up recently finally got my attention, and I visited it.
Screencasting is actually something I would be very interested in. I often need to teach others how to do something, and the ability to add this into my website might be useful.
Unfortunately for Camtasia Studio, I use a Mac, so I will have to look for other software. And there seem to be some free ones out there worth looking at.
Hey Schinckel! Cool blog.
I am starting a BlogSome blog here, and I wanted to know if there is any way (any particular tag I can use) to show the sub-categories of my posts in the sidebar. The “hierarchical” tag seems to show only the category parent.
The BlogSome forum doesn’t seem to have an answer, so I figured you’d be my best bet.
1 day, 2 hours after the fact.
I’ve not tried to do this at all - I didn’t feel that sub-categories were something I needed.
My tip is to use the Wordpress Codex. From there, you need to find the tag you want. I think you’ll need to use
the_category.You will also need to know how to move something from PHP to Smarty Tags. (Hint: It’s just wrapped in
{}, and arguments need to be named).I think the code you’ll need is something like:
{ the_category seperator="," parents="multiple"}Let me know if this works.
1 day, 21 hours after the fact.
Hey Matthew,
Thanks for that tag. The only problem now is that it displays the parent category twice at the top of the post, because I want the item to appear both in the parent and the sub-category (in the sidebar). If I remove the parent categorisation, then the categories appear fine in the post, but the post doesn’t appear inside the parent category in the sidebar. So I’ll stick to simply the seperator tag, and tick two categories while posting.
But what I actually wanted was something different. I wanted to show the sub-category in the sidebar under the parent. I checked out the Wordpress codex, and it seems that this is available only in Wordpress 1.5 and above. Blogsome uses something earlier than that, doesn’t it?
My main problem here is that if my parent cat is ‘Books’, and the sub-cat is ‘A. E. van Vogt’, then the sub will apear above the parent.
Would be glad if you could help.
2 days, 4 hours after the fact.
Actually, Blogsome uses 1.5.1, MultiUser. So it should work.
I know what you mean know, I just haven’t figured out how to do that either…I’ll look into it over the next few days.
2 days, 4 hours after the fact.
The thing you need is:
{ list_cats children='1' hierarchical='1' }(In addition to this, keep all of the other options you need).
2 days, 20 hours after the fact.
Ah, yes. That’s done the trick! Thanks so much for your help. I was struggling with that for, like, a month. You’re a way cool chap.
4 days, 9 hours after the fact.