http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Sat, 25 May 2013 19:55:20 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/wp_dropdown_categoriespages-in-thematic#post-10461 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:49:43 +0000 MarSOnEarth 10461@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hopefully soon. Most of the "mechanisms" of the site are already in place. I still have to solve the per page dynamic updates of the Connections plug-in content, and it looks like I'll have to do it via a custom Loop; not trivial for someone not well versed in PHP, but there are many examples to draw upon. Gosh! What would I do without the community of WP users doing it all before me. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/wp_dropdown_categoriespages-in-thematic#post-10421 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:54:25 +0000 flick 10421@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>It would be interesting to see a screenshot of this 'in-action' MarS :) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/wp_dropdown_categoriespages-in-thematic#post-10387 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:42:38 +0000 MarSOnEarth 10387@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>An hour later (+dinner time): note to self; Test one thing at a time (there already was the Categories widget on the page. Here's the working code:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;div id=&quot;LM_access&quot;&gt; &lt;div id=&quot;cat_menu&quot;&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;?php $cat_args[&#39;show_option_none&#39;] = __( &#39;Select Posts in...&#39; ); wp_dropdown_categories( $cat_args ); ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt; /* &lt;![CDATA[ */ var dropdown = document.getElementById(&quot;cat&quot;); function onCatChange() { if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value &gt; 0 ) { location.href = &quot;http://localhost/wordpress/?cat=&quot;+dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value; } } dropdown.onchange = onCatChange; /* ]]&gt; */ &lt;/script&gt; &lt;div id=&quot;page_menu&quot;&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;?php $page_args[&#39;show_option_no_change&#39;] = __( &#39;Information&#39; ); wp_dropdown_pages( $page_args ); ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt; /* &lt;![CDATA[ */ var ddown = document.getElementById(&quot;page_id&quot;); function onPageChange() { if ( ddown.options[ddown.selectedIndex].value &gt; 0 ) { location.href = &quot;http://localhost/wordpress/?page_id=&quot;+ddown.options[ddown.selectedIndex].value; } } ddown.onchange = onPageChange; /* ]]&gt; */ &lt;/script&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> <p>Thanks to Ian for Thematic. With what's there somehow I'm forging ahead with WP without knowing much of PHP. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/wp_dropdown_categoriespages-in-thematic#post-10383 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:17:44 +0000 MarSOnEarth 10383@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>WP provides these two functions and Thematic provides for the *_categories variant as a widget. On the site I'm working on I envisioned the main navigation to be the two dropdowns + breadcrumbs, but I've ran into a problem; while the categories dropdown switches to the selected category automagically, the pages dropdown does not. Here's how I'm using the two:<br /> <pre><code>$cat_args[&#39;show_option_none&#39;] = __(&#39;Select Posts in...&#39;); wp_dropdown_categories($cat_args); $page_args[&#39;show_option_no_change&#39;] = __(&#39;Information&#39;); wp_dropdown_pages($page_args);</code></pre> <p>What is the magic that makes the two functions act differently? BTW, the widgetized Categories in Thematic provides its own JS switching routine, but even without it the wp_dropdown_categories() works, and the *_pages() with that (adjusted) JS code still does not. What gives? Help me out of this box I painted myself into, please. </p>