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Dropdown box listing select categories
5 replies · Started by Shrawan on June 21, 2022
Hello support team,
I’d like to create a dropdown box on the sidebar showing select categories. How can this be achieved easily, is there a plugin you would recommend?
Thanks,
S
Hi there,
what would the Select Box do ? Would it take you to that category archive ?
Hi David, yes!
Theres the core Categories widget you can add to the Sidebar.
If you're using the Block Editor, then after adding the Categories block, click the 3 dot menu to display More Options, it has an option to display as Drop Down.
Hi David, is it possible to choose only select categories to show with this method? Don't wish to show all categories.
Not 100% sure but the filter being used in the snippet below may still work:
//Hide categories from WordPress category widget
function exclude_widget_categories($args){
$exclude = "1,4,8,57,80";
$args["exclude"] = $exclude;
return $args;
}
add_filter("widget_categories_args","exclude_widget_categories");Just change the $exclude = "1,4,8,57,80"; to contain the IDs of the categories you want to exclude.
Reference to source: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/253170
