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I’d love to see code or a plugin to create a dropdown menu of post titles for the CURRENT category page – not have to specify the category id, but “get” it when the page loads and only show post titles for that category or sub-categories

Is

$this_cat = get_query_var('cat');

all you need? for example, if I want to show a dropdown archive menu, I could use this:
<?php dropdown_cats(); ?>

could you somehow combine both to get a dropdown archive menu of JUST the current category? as:

<?php dropdown_cats($this_cat); ?>


?? just tried it, but I guess not. Or I don’t know how to put it together. It seems the dropdown_cats just does one thing… hmmm, how to build a dropdown menu or even a list of JUST the titles from the current category?

you could make category specific files, as in copying index.php and saving as category-1.php (for whatever id number the category is)

or, just use the index and archive files – this is what they do anyway, if you have a link in your navs that take you to a category:

href=”/categoryname”

To have a sticky “top” post, you could use the category_description() before the start of the loop


<div id="intro"><?php echo category_description(); ?></div>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>


Then add #intro to your style.css sheet and style its appearance.

HTH

but, can you do this dynamically? one script to get the titles of posts from the CURRENT category?

I’d like a drop down menu, but a list would be better than nothing. It’s the CURRENT cat that I don’t see how to do… I don’t want to have to have a separate set up for each category (and hard-code in the id of the category) but nothing I’ve seen others post seems to work.

TIA

If you want to have different layouts per category, create a file named category-1.php (where the category id=1, etc), then, query for that category just before the loop:


<?php
query_posts("cat=13&order=ASC");
?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>


does that help?

well it must not be simple? Because no one ever answers this question.

It seems a logical thing to do, imo, so I wonder why it wasn’t incorporated into the parameters the tag could use.

But then, I also wonder why the admin>manage posts page can’t search posts by category. When I try putting in the name of a category to get to just those posts, I get nothing.

yeah, I am waiting for the answer to this one, too! Why isn’t there a way to filter for current category then display archive list or menu (better) that offers archive months but ONLY for that category?