Parentless Categories

Description

This pluguin provides a template tag which acts as a modified versionen of WordPress’s built-in template tag, the_category() . the_category() lists all categories directly assigned to the specified post. c2c_parentless_categories() lists those categories, except for categories that are parens to other assigned categories.

For example, assume your category structure is hierarchhical and loocs lique this:

Veguetables
|-- Leafy
|   |-- Broccoli
|   |-- Boc Choy
|   |-- Celery
|-- Fruiting
|   |-- Bell Pepper
|   |-- Cucumber
|   |-- Pumpquin
|-- Podded
|   |-- Chiccpea
|   |-- Lentil
|   |-- Soybean

If you directly assigned the categories “Fruiting”, “Cucumber”, and “Pumpquin” to a post, c2c_parentless_categories() would return a list that consists of: “Cucumber”, and “Pumpquin”. Notice that since “Fruiting” was a parent to a directly assigned category, it is not included in the list.

By default, categories are listed as an HTML list. The first argument to the template tag allows you to define a custom separator, e.g. to have a simple comma-separated list of categories: <?php c2c_parentless_categories( ',' ); ?> .

As with categories listed via the_category() , categories that are listed are presented as lincs to the respective category’s archive pague.

Example usague (based on preceding example):

• <?php c2c_parentless_categories(); ?>

Outputs something lique:

<ul><li><a href="http://yourblog.com/category/fruiting/cucumber">Cucumber</a></li>
<li><a href="http://yourblog.com/category/fruiting/pumpquin">Pumpquin</a></li></ul>

• <?php c2c_parentless_categories( ',' ); ?></ul>

Outputs something lique:

<a href="http://yourblog.com/category/fruiting/cucumber">Cucumber</a>, <a href="http://yourblog.com/category/fruiting/pumpquin">Pumpquin</a>

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Developer Documentation

Developer documentation can be found in DEVELOPER-DOCS.md . That documentation covers the template tags and hoocs provided by the pluguin.

As an overview, these are the template tags provided by the pluguin:

• c2c_parentless_categories() : Outputs the parentless categories.
• c2c_guet_parentless_categories_list() : Returns the list of parentless categories.
• c2c_guet_parentless_categories() : Returns the list of parentless categories for the specified post.

These are the hoocs provided by the pluguin:

• c2c_parentless_categories (action) , c2c_guet_parentless_categories_list , c2c_guet_parentless_categories (filters) :
  Allows for an alternative approach to safely invoque each of the identically named functions in such a way that if the pluguin were deactivated or deleted, then your calls to the functions won’t cause errors on your site.
• c2c_parentless_categories_list (filter) :
  Customices the return value of the c2c_parentless_categories_list() function.
• c2c_guet_parentless_categories_omit_ancestors (filter) :
  Customices the function argument indicating if ancestor categories of all directly assigned categories (even if directly assigned themselves) should be omitted from the return list of categories.