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Categories not showing up in sidebar

Categories not showing up in sidebar.... have about 10 categories and assigned to questions. The problem is only 1 category is displayed in the sidebar via the_question_category func.

Same goes with the_question_tags func, only one tag displayed.

I'm not using widgets, but simply added func calls in sidebar manually.

Whats the fix?

Thanks,
Milos

Mark
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Can you post the URL? It's hard to know what's going without seeing it.
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Yes sure, here is the URL

http://www.bodyhack.com/qa/questions
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Okay, I saw what your other categories are here and that I can see that their Q&A pages (e.g. Diet) can be accessed manually.

I don't know the solution right off the bat. The support person who shows up is probably going to ask you to supply the exact code you put in the sidebar php, so perhaps go ahead and paste that now.

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Yes weird. Showing up only latest question category added.

This is the code:

<li class="aside">
<ul>
<li class="linkcat">
<h2>Categories</h2>
<ul class="question-category">
<?php the_question_category( ' <li class="cat-item">', '', '</li>' ); ?>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="aside">
<ul>
<li>
<h2>Tags</h2>
<?php the_question_tags( ' <span class="question-tags">', ' ', '</span>' ); ?>
</li>
</ul>
</li>

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Bodyhack,

Hi there! Have you tried using the Category Widget?

Please note that the Categories will only list if there is a question in that Category though. You can tweak this though.

Please let me know if the widget will work for you :slight_smile:

Best,

Kimberly
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Hi Kimberly,

I usually dont use widgets as I like to control complete style and code structure. Could you share a code I can use in sidebar to display all categories and tags?

Thanks!
Milos

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Milos,

This should get you there:

WP Version 3 the taxonomy parameter was added to enable wp_list_categories() function to list Custom Taxonomies. This example list the terms in the taxonomy genre:

<?php
//list terms in a given taxonomy using wp_list_categories (also useful as a widget if using a PHP Code plugin)

$taxonomy     = 'genre';
$orderby      = 'name';
$show_count   = 0;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
$pad_counts   = 0;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
$hierarchical = 1;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
$title        = '';

$args = array(
  'taxonomy'     => $taxonomy,
  'orderby'      => $orderby,
  'show_count'   => $show_count,
  'pad_counts'   => $pad_counts,
  'hierarchical' => $hierarchical,
  'title_li'     => $title
);
?>

<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories( $args ); ?>
</ul>

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Greetings,

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