Display Category Links Under A Parent Category Options

[deanloh]

I have used MTLookup and scanned through hundreds of results still I failed to find what I'm looking for. If any of you have implemented this before, please share your technique.

I have a structure like this:

Hyperlinks
-- Personal
---- Books
---- Websites
---- Blogs
---- and the list goes on
-- Professional
---- Account Management
---- Project Management
---- Design
---- and the list goes on

Now I need MT to generate the list of category links under Personal only (Books, Websites etc) and output it to this:

CODE

<ul>
<li><a href="<books category archive>">Books</li>
<li><a href="<website category archive>">Website</li>
<li><a href="<blogs category archive>">Blogs</li>
<li>... and the list goes on
</ul>

I have tried MTFilterCategories plugin, problem is, I had to specify what categories to be included, which can be troublesome as I'll have to edit the code whenever I add new subcategories in future, same goes with the exclude function.

I'm just wondering: isn't there a way to make MT generate the list of subcategories under a specific main category only?

In short, I wish the following codes...

CODE

<ul>
 <MTCategories show_empty="1">
  <li><a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>">
  <$MTCategoryLabel$></a> (<$MTCategoryCount$>)</li>
 </MTCategories>
</ul>

can become this:

CODE

<ul>
 <MTCategories show_empty="1" category="Personal">
  <li><a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>">
  <$MTCategoryLabel$></a> (<$MTCategoryCount$>)</li>
 </MTCategories>
</ul>

Help?

[telemark]

Does this do it?

CODE

<MTSubCategories>
 <MTIfIsDescendant parent="Personal">
   <a href="<MTCategoryArchiveLink>"><MTCategoryLabel></a>
 </MTIfIsDescendant>
</MTSubcategories>

I must confess to not having tested this so would be interested in your feedback!

[deanloh]

Thank you for the reply, telemark

I tried your code, no luck, it output only the archive link of "Personal"

But I still appreciate your attempt to help.

[deanloh]

Inspired by telemark's suggestion, I tried this:

CODE

<ul>
<MTCategories show_empty="1">
<MTIfIsDescendant parent="Personal">
  <li><a href="<MTCategoryArchiveLink>"><MTCategoryLabel></a></li>
</MTIfIsDescendant>
</MTCategories>
</ul>

It worked!!! WHOA! At last! Thanks to telemark!!!

[azemat]

Inspired by telemark's suggestion, I tried this:

CODE

<ul>
<MTCategories show_empty="1">
<MTIfIsDescendant parent="Personal">
  <li><a href="<MTCategoryArchiveLink>"><MTCategoryLabel></a></li>
</MTIfIsDescendant>
</MTCategories>
</ul>

It worked!!! WHOA! At last! Thanks to telemark!!!

Very very very very very very very very very Thansk!!!!!

[kelake]

Inspired by telemark's suggestion, I tried this:

CODE

<ul>
<MTCategories show_empty="1">
<MTIfIsDescendant parent="Personal">
  <li><a href="<MTCategoryArchiveLink>"><MTCategoryLabel></a></li>
</MTIfIsDescendant>
</MTCategories>
</ul>

It worked!!! WHOA! At last! Thanks to telemark!!!

Very very very very very very very very very Thansk!!!!!

How to make it shows only the categories for that particular entry?

[pletch]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

SO helpful, I've been trying to figure this out for 2 days!!! Awesome, thanks!