php - Wordpress Dropdown Categories All Links to Single -

php - Wordpress Dropdown Categories All Links to Single -

i'm having issue where, though page renders "all" selected in dropdown, if go category (renders fine) , "all" in dropdown, see single post. instead of displayed page of categories. need page render same page "all" regardless. thoughts?

wp_dropdown_categories('show_option_all=all&hide_empty=0&show_count=0&orderby=name&echo=0');

i did similar post on wpse lastly week , seems 2 might related. convenience, here post

here variation of code use. i'm using get_categories() here accomplish same goal. had adjust code create acceptable need.

there other modifications have create work. when select all categories option, taken page display ever need display. page have manually create

there no index archive pages in wordpress might know. (check out this post have done on same subject). means is, domain.com/category/ returns 404.

so, create work, you'll have create re-create of page.php, rename page-category.php (see codex on how create custom page templates), open up, create custom query display display when page visited

you need create page in end. suggest utilize slug category when visit domain.com/category/, page displayed. (just remember, cannot create kid pages page, break hierarchy). have made code go domain.com/category/ when all categories selected

apart that, code should work fine. need check url structures maybe, , set parameters in get_categories() suite needs. here drop downwards code.

<select name="event-dropdown" onchange='document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedindex].value;'> <option value=""><?php echo esc_attr(__('select category')); ?></option> <?php $option = '<option value="' . get_option('home') . '/category/">all categories</option>'; // alter category custom page slug $categories = get_categories(); foreach ($categories $category) { $option .= '<option value="'.get_option('home').'/category/'.$category->slug.'">'; $option .= $category->cat_name; $option .= ' ('.$category->category_count.')'; $option .= '</option>'; } echo $option; ?> </select>

edit

i had thought here come in handy. i've done reply on displaying categories in list post titles under specific category. same thought can used in page-category.php template.

when user selects all categories option, taken page list categories , post title.

here finish code: (for explanation of code, see post here)

in functions.php

add_action( 'transition_post_status', 'publish_new_post', 10, 3 ); function publish_new_post() { delete_transient( 'category_list' ); }

in template need display list

<?php if ( false === ( $q = get_transient( 'category_list' ) ) ) { $args = array( 'posts_per_page' => -1 ); $query = new wp_query($args); $q = array(); while ( $query->have_posts() ) { $query->the_post(); $a = '<a href="'. get_permalink() .'">' . get_the_title() .'</a>'; $categories = get_the_category(); foreach ( $categories $key=>$category ) { $b = '<a href="' . get_category_link( $category->cat_id ) . '">' . $category->name . '</a>'; } $q[$b][] = $a; // create array category names , post titles } /* restore original post info */ wp_reset_postdata(); set_transient( 'category_list', $q, 12 * hour_in_seconds ); } foreach ($q $key=>$values) { echo $key; echo '<ul>'; foreach ($values $value){ echo '<li>' . $value . '</li>'; } echo '</ul>'; } ?>

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