Title: Dropdown Posts List
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Dropdown Posts List

 *  [kwills7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwills7/)
 * (@kwills7)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/)
 * Hi All,
 * I am in the middle of working on a project and seem to have hit a brick wall 
   with something im not sure how to do.
 * I need to create a dropdown list of posts to go on my website that shows all 
   the posts i have created in every category. I have managed to find this: [http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/drop-down-post-list-plugin-for-wordpress/](http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/drop-down-post-list-plugin-for-wordpress/)
   which works well but only shows posts from one single category.
 * Does anyone know any code i could use or manipulate to get the list to show all
   posts?
 * I have managed to get a temporary fix for the problem by creating a category 
   all putting all the posts under it, but i dont really want to go ahead with that
   because the search engines seem to index the wrong URL for it.
 * Any help is appreciated, thanks.

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 *  [MadsK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madsk/)
 * (@madsk)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938526)
 * Try this :
 * <select name=\”archive-dropdown\” onChange=’document.location.href=this.options[
   this.selectedIndex].value;’>
    <option value=\”\”><?php echo attribute_escape(
   __(‘Select Post’)); ?></option> <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=postbypost&format
   =option&show_post_count=0’); ?> </select>
 * I hope this helps 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [kwills7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwills7/)
 * (@kwills7)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938527)
 * That works thanks! is there anyway i can change that to show the post title instead
   of the date?
 * Thanks again
 *  [MadsK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madsk/)
 * (@madsk)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938528)
 * I’ve edited the above code.
 * When you use postbypost it shows the title instead of date 😀
 *  Thread Starter [kwills7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwills7/)
 * (@kwills7)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938529)
 * it works!, Cheers for that, much appreciated!
 *  Thread Starter [kwills7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwills7/)
 * (@kwills7)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938530)
 * Just one more thing,
 * I have another dropdown with the following code:
 *  <?php wp_dropdown_categories(‘show_option_none=Select a Category&show_count=
   1’); ?>
 *  <script type=”text/javascript”><!–
    var dropdown = document.getElementById(“
   cat”); function onCatChange() { if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].
   value > 0 ) { location.href = “<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/?cat=”+dropdown.
   options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value; } } dropdown.onchange = onCatChange; –
   ></script>
 * it displays categories with posts within it, is there some way i can manipulate
   that to show all the categories even if they don’t have a post within it?
 * Thanks for this, you are saving me a lot of headache!
 *  [MadsK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madsk/)
 * (@madsk)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938533)
 * Edit:
 * You should use hide_empty=0
 * <?php wp_dropdown_categories(‘show_option_none=Select a Category&show_count=1&
   hide_empty=0’); ?>
 *  Thread Starter [kwills7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwills7/)
 * (@kwills7)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938536)
 * brilliant, thanks for your help :o)
 *  [MadsK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madsk/)
 * (@madsk)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938537)
 * No problem. Glad you could use it 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [kwills7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwills7/)
 * (@kwills7)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938540)
 * sorry, just ONE more last thing i promise!
 * the dropdown code you have just listed is fine… i just need it now to show the“
   uncategorised” category…
 * Is this possible?
 * Thanks again
 *  [MadsK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madsk/)
 * (@madsk)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938541)
 * Well the code i gave you above should list all categories you have. But given
   that the uncategorised category is there in default you might have to delete 
   it and create your own uncategorised category.
 *  Thread Starter [kwills7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kwills7/)
 * (@kwills7)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938545)
 * OK, thanks for your help, i’ll leave you alone now.
 *  [sene1983](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sene1983/)
 * (@sene1983)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938887)
 * hi, i read the posts. but i could not understand. there are lots of php codes
   here. 🙁
 * For example, there are 2 categories that named “A” and “B”. when you login the
   A category, i want dropdown plugin to show the post of “A” category. when you
   click the category “B”, i want to dropdown to show the post of category “B is
   that possible?
 * plz help
 *  [sene1983](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sene1983/)
 * (@sene1983)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938888)
 * sorry?
 *  `<?php wp_dropdown_categories(‘show_option_none=Select a Category&show_count
   =1’); ?>
 * <script type=”text/javascript”><!–
    var dropdown = document.getElementById(“cat”);
   function onCatChange() { if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value 
   > 0 ) { location.href = “<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/?cat=”+dropdown.options[
   dropdown.selectedIndex].value; } } dropdown.onchange = onCatChange; –></script
   >`
 * is that code is workin?
 *  [issy-m](https://wordpress.org/support/users/issy-m/)
 * (@issy-m)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938903)
 * What if I just wanted to display all posts under one specific category (i.e. 
   hacks).
 * Thank you
 *  [sailpilot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sailpilot/)
 * (@sailpilot)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropdown-posts-list/#post-938917)
 * issy-m use the plugin mentioned above
 * [http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/drop-down-post-list-plugin-for-wordpress](http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/drop-down-post-list-plugin-for-wordpress)

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