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Think this has been posted before but can’t find a solid answer. All I need to do is display the child categories of a parent category.

I was trying category= (below) but that’s obviously the wrong approach.

<ul>
{exp:weblog:categories weblog="default_site" category="29" show_empty="yes" style="linear"}
<li><a href="#" title="View entries">{category_name}</a></li>
{/exp:weblog:categories}
</ul>

Want to avoid extensions/plugins if possible. Any help much appreciated.

You could pipe all of the categories you want to show in the category=”” parameter- so if you want to show cats 5,6,7 it would be category=“5|6|7” - but there isn’t a parameter in that tag to show the children of ‘x’- to do that, you’d need a query or a third party plugin.  Make sense?

Yeah that makes sense. It just means if my client adds/removes a category in future, I’ll have to update the template to add/remove the category id. No major sweat though.

Thanks.

Actually, I’ve just tried that and my template is still displaying all categories. Here’s my code…

<ul>
{exp:weblog:categories weblog="default_site" category="39|52|27|38|53|54|43" show_empty="yes" style="linear"}
<li><a href="#" title="View entries">{category_name}</a></li>
{/exp:weblog:categories}
</ul>

What am I doing wrong?

I would have sworn category was a valid parameter- but it’s just category group.  Sorry for leading you astray there.  OK- 3 options- a query, the subcategory 3rd party plugin, just hard code the links.  If you are specifying the category in a parameter anyway?  I’d just hard code the links.  It’s leaner and it’s non-dynamic anyway.  If you need it to be dynamic?  Then I’m thinking query or the subcategory plugin.

Make sense?

Yes, thanks. I’ll just hard-code them in. What’s the best syntax to link to pass the subcategory id on to a subcategory template? I want to automagically display only subcategory entries on the destination page.

Thx

Doing a custom query to get this info isn’t very difficult and I’d bet someone has already posted the code in the forums. However, there is a subcategory plugin. Let me find the link…ah, yes, here it is. I used this sucessfully on a business site I did a couple of months back.