Comments on: Two columns with unordered lists

By: Garrick

Garrick — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:08:58 +0000

@Cat: I’m not familiar with wp_tag_cloud(), but if wp_tag_cloud() returns an array, you could loop through the array and build a two column list.

By: Cat

Cat — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:41:08 +0000

Will the same work for a two column list applied to wp_tag_cloud()?

Thanks, helpful post!

By: Garrick

Garrick — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:15:49 +0000

@Eric, one of the parameters for the get_categories function is the exclude parameter, which takes the a comma-delimited string of category ID’s you can exclude. This way you won’t need to manually do it in php.

Check out more info and other parameters for get_categories here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_categories

As for doing something similar but with tags, you could use the wp_tag_cloud function. Check it out here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_tag_cloud

I know at first glance it’ll look like it only prints out a tag cloud for you, but about have way through the documentation, there’s a format parameter that you can set to array to return an array, which is probably what you want in order to mimic what we’re doing here.

I hope this all helps.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:53:17 +0000

Also, do you know how you would modify this for tags?

I attempted to simply switch out “category” for “tag” and “categories” for “tags” and “catty” for “taggy”

It didn’t really work

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:30:37 +0000

Garrick,
Could you share a quick edit to enable this same function but with specific categories hidden? I’m not sure if an “if” test just after the increment++ would do it, or if that would be terribly inefficient (checking for only a couple of categories to hide among a large list)

Thanks!
Eric