WordPress Development Asked by Dave on October 24, 2020
I just read “How to create option page for wordpress theme” in wp.tutsplus.com – I have a problem with getting categories .
there is two parts to my question
– Part A – Get category slug and display it
In this tutorial there is a select option as follow :
$options[] = array(
"section" => "select_section",
"id" => WPTUTS_SHORTNAME . "_select_input",
"title" => __( 'Select (type one)', 'wptuts_textdomain' ),
"desc" => __( 'A regular select form field', 'wptuts_textdomain' ),
"type" => "select",
"std" => "3",
"choices" => array( "1", "2", "3")
Now, instead of the 1-2-3 choices , I want to return category slugs to display it to user – can someone please modify this code so it return the slugs for categories created on the site?
– Part B – Display category slug in query_posts format
The typical returning value for above code is this :
<?php echo $wptuts_option['wptuts_select_input']; ?>
I use this code for my query post :
<?php query_posts('showposts=1&category_name=news'); ?>
where the “news” is the category “slug” – not name of the category
now , can someone please modify the code so it gets the category slug based on the option chose in the theme option page ?
I am stuck in fixing this problem and I looked every where, but cant find a solution
thanks
Put this code into your function.php
$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID , 'category');
if($terms) {
foreach( $terms as $term ) {
$cat_obj = get_term($term->term_id, 'category');
$cat_slug = $cat_obj->slug;
}
}
and then set var $cat_slug into your "choices",
and then set var $cat_slug into your "choices",
$options[] = array(
"section" => "select_section",
"id" => WPTUTS_SHORTNAME . "_select_input",
"title" => _( 'Select (type one)', 'wptuts_textdomain' ),
"desc" => _( 'A regular select form field', 'wptuts_textdomain' ),
"type" => "select",
"choices" => $cat_slug
);
Answered by AddWeb Solution Pvt Ltd on October 24, 2020
We see from the example that the option accepts a simple array of values:
array( "1", "2", "3")
get_categories
returns an array of objects, so we need to do a bit of reformatting to make it work:
$categories = get_categories();
$slugs = array();
foreach( $categories as $category )
$slugs[] = $category->slug;
Now we have a simple array of $slugs
to pass:
$options[] = array(
"section" => "select_section",
"id" => WPTUTS_SHORTNAME . "_select_input",
"title" => __( 'Select (type one)', 'wptuts_textdomain' ),
"desc" => __( 'A regular select form field', 'wptuts_textdomain' ),
"type" => "select",
"choices" => $slugs
);
Answered by Milo on October 24, 2020
I am not positive how to do what you want. But I have been using this framework which is very similar to what you have above but is much easier to use
http://aquagraphite.com/2011/11/smof-documentation/
setting up options is really easy and it is supported through github. There is a place to ask these exact kind of questions. That and the framework has a lot of examples in it that you can copy and paste to get your admin area up and running. I just commented out all the example options so that I could reference them when I wanted to create one of them.
As for your answer. I don't know how to do you but you could try some things like this
"choices" => get_categories( );
Answered by Jamie on October 24, 2020
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