Hi,

To help with the large number of categories I have I want to include a multi select search box where you select box 1 and box 2 is pre-populated based on your decision. I know how to code this and have a version workking but I need some help:

1. I will want to include this in the sidebar but want to make it look professional like the standard one-theme sidebar widgets (an example of a site which does what I want is Home - What Car? Helping you buy better)
2. I will want stop categories appearing on the standard navigation area, how do I do this?

Thanks in advance

Graham

Can anyone help??

Can anyone from the support team help..............????????

Hello

I'm struggling to understand what you mean, would you mind posting a screenshot?

I am looking to do something as shown in this image:

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Essentially I will pull my categories and subcategories into this select form. I want to know how I can place this into the header and give it a look and feel consistent with the site.

Hi

I think you need to commission a piece of work like this. Unless you have any web design experience?

Is this something you would be willing to do for a price or can you recommend anyone?

I've figured out the search querying required to search only specific categories, I might be able to do it. Let me see if I can get some php magic done.

If it matters to anybody, the way to query a specific category is by adding "&cat=" to the end of the url, followed by the category id numbers. If you are querying multiple categories, put commas in between the numbers.

Okay, I'm having troubles, I have no idea how to create a Wordpress plugin xP

If someone else wants to try, all they need to be able to do is pull the category names + ids from the database, and then post the ids along with the search terms when the user submits their search.

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Thanks for looking at this...

Graham

Can anyone do this, willing to pay...

Hi guys

Sorry I'm not able to take you up on this, I'm pretty swamped getting 1.1 developed.

Okay, well, I'll see if I can figure out the whole WP plugin api by looking at some other plugins. If I can figure it out, I'll make a plugin

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Thank you for taking the time to do this, I am very grateful

I've sent you a pm, I need some info to make sure I get you everything you want out of the plugin =P

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Okay, I got the basic version of it done. There's no styling, and there isn't a separate drop-down for child categories yet (child categories should be searched along with the parent of it).



If anybody wants this beta version of it, pm me. I'm not releasing it to public yet as I don't think it's ready (even though I've gotten it down to 2 queries, 1 to weed out only the categories, and one for the names)

Also, there's a live demo of it on my website if you want to try it out first.

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Great work mc2w, quite a handy feature

Heh, just thought of a few reasons why it's not suitable for public release:
Stores ALL terms (including tags) into an array, so that's a problem. Also, it displays categories that have no posts in them, so those seem to be pointless. Lastly, I haven't figured out how to display categories in alphabetical order.

I'm trying to find the wp_list_categories function so I can see how wordpress pulls categories from the database, and hopefully cleanse my plugin.

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