Title: Adding Multiple Category Dropdowns
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Adding Multiple Category Dropdowns

 *  Resolved [dmx09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmx09/)
 * (@dmx09)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-category-dropdowns/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m building a site that will require multiple dropdowns, each displaying a different
   category like so:
 * Genre (Dropdown 1)
    Rock Alternative etc
 * Tempo (Dropdown 1)
    Fast Slow etc
 * I can easily display ‘All’ categories using the following: (taken from the codex)
 * `<?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_count=1&hierarchical=1'); ?>`
 * I’m just not sure how I can have multiple instances, each displaying a different
   category..
 * This doesn’t seem to work, when I add `&cat=26` at the end of the line of code:
 * `<?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_count=1&hierarchical=1&cat=14'); ?>`
 * `<?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_count=1&hierarchical=1&cat=26'); ?>`
 * Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

 *  [Dotstore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dots/)
 * (@dots)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-category-dropdowns/#post-1742147)
 * Hi dmx09,
    for this purpose you can use `<?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_count
   =1&hierarchical=1&child_of=25');?>`
 *  Thread Starter [dmx09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmx09/)
 * (@dmx09)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-category-dropdowns/#post-1742160)
 * That works a treat, many thanks!
 * At the moment it only displays the categories which have posts attached to them,
   is there a way to show all categories regardless of whether there are associated
   posts?
 * I’ve added `&show_option_all` but it still only shows populated categories.
 * `<?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_count=1&hierarchical=1&child_of=26&show_option_all');?
   >`
 *  [extatix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/extatix/)
 * (@extatix)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-category-dropdowns/#post-1742162)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_categories](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_categories)
 *  Thread Starter [dmx09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmx09/)
 * (@dmx09)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-category-dropdowns/#post-1742167)
 * Thanks, thats where I got the `&show_option_all` code from.
    I’ll have another
   look, maybe I missed something.
 *  [extatix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/extatix/)
 * (@extatix)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-category-dropdowns/#post-1742168)
 * >  ‘hide_empty’ => 1,
 *  Thread Starter [dmx09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmx09/)
 * (@dmx09)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-category-dropdowns/#post-1742170)
 * Fantastic, many thanks!

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

The topic ‘Adding Multiple Category Dropdowns’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [dmx09](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmx09/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-category-dropdowns/#post-1742170)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics