Show WordPress Subcategories Under Parent Category

Posted by Jeff

on January 27, 2008

Have you added a WordPress subcategory under a parent category and it still shows like a separate main category on the WordPress sidebar? Have you wondered how to get subcategories to show under the parent category on the WordPress sidebar?

This is a short little WordPress guide that will show you how easy it is to get your categories and subcategories to show like this:

This WordPress guide assumes your theme is widget ready and you know how to Work with WordPress text widgets. In your WordPress dashboard go to Presentation, Widgets. If the categories widget in not show on the sidebar drag it from the available widgets area up to the sidebar. Now click the little blue icon on it to open it. Click the box next to Show hierarchy, close the widget and and click save changes. I told you this guide would be short didn’t I?

Read more about text widgets here: Work with WordPress text widgets.

This post was inspired by a question from a recnt client of mine I just setup a new WordPress blog for. Check it out here: Living Yoga Blog

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Comments

Comment by Jessica on July 31, 2008 @ 12:57 am

Fantastic guide! I give full marks for brevity and usefulness.

Bravo.

Comment by Joey Sikes on December 7, 2008 @ 7:45 pm

I have been trying to get that to work and could not find a soultion. Finally came upon your page on Google and went into my WordPress Admin with a new window. Thank you sooo much, I thought I was going to go crazy. I can’t believe I didn’t know that…

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Comment by Deb on January 2, 2009 @ 10:21 pm

Thanks for this post – I was going crazy with plugins and widgets that didn’t ‘widg’ correctly to display subcategories when I found this info. Oftentimes the simple solution is the best.

I enjoy your blog and your very easy to follow help.

Deb

Comment by Inspired Living on January 15, 2009 @ 7:44 pm

Thank you so much this is really helpful. I really appreciate it.

Jackson

Comment by Sold out concert tickets on July 24, 2009 @ 5:06 am

Awesome. Simply awesome. I love the guide. I’m kind of new to wordpress. This is what I was looking for. I had to put few categories in my blog. Appreciate the effort for the guide. Great job. Cheers

Comment by Val Nelson on December 7, 2009 @ 4:42 pm

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the WordPress advice on this blog. I wonder if you can help me with this. I have more categories than I would like so I want to add parent categories retroactively. But I use category in the permalink structure and don’t want the parent categories to get added in. Do you know of a work-around to stop the URL from changing?

Thank you

Jeff Replied:
December 7th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Search Google for a permalink plugin?? Start here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/277035

Or the basic site here: http://wordpress.org/support/

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