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So I’d like to be able to group my categories together, but the names of the groups are not categories themselves. So for the project I’m working on now, I need to be able to categorize the posts based on the equipment used and the room the experiment takes place in, and then have ways to see all entries from a particular room or category in the navigation. So ideally:

Equipment
—Device One
—Device Two
Room
—Room One
—Room Two

But you’d never pick “Equipment” itself as a category and I don’t want “Equipment” to be a link in the navigation. But as far as I can tell, any time I exclude the parent, the children are also excluded. The only workaround I can come up with is to just hard code the names of the categories into the navigation, but that will obviously make it a giant pain to add equipment in the future.

So how do you guys handle this? I keep running into it and I’m never entirely satisfied with the solution. Any suggestions welcome.

Hi,

Try Child Categories plugin. It has different tags for parent and child categories, so you will be able to display them differently.

Hi grovberg,

As you’ve noticed, Categories can be a bit frustrating.

Did Laisvunas suggestion of Child Categories get you what you were looking for?

Cheers,

Thanks for the help guys. I realize now that it wasn’t entirely clear that I wasn’t stuck and looking for a specific answer per se, but rather just trying start a conversation to see if there was a consensus “THE BEST WAY” to tackle that particular problem. FWIW, I’ve been solving it by using Low Replace to just remove the parent categories, but that just seem inelegant at best.

Child Categories does look interesting though and I bookmarked it for the next time I run across this.

Thanks to you both.

PS I probably should have posted this in Community Help if I wanted a conversation, right? Sorry about that.

Hi grovberg,

PS I probably should have posted this in Community Help if I wanted a conversation, right? Sorry about that.

Hey, no worries! I’ll move it right on over there.

Thanks!