Category Drop Down in Plugin Options WordPress
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I would like to build a category drop down into my plugin options. I can't seem to find the right code to do this. I think I'm almost there, but it not quite.
<select name='radar_options[blog_category]'>
<?php
$categories=get_categories();
foreach($categories as $category) {
$selected = '';
$selected = 'selected="selected"';
echo '<option value="' . $radar_options['blog_category'] . '" ' . $selected . '>' . $category->name . '</option>';
}
?>
</select>
Any help would be appreciated!
Mike
Answers (2)
Luis Abarca answers:
wp_dropdown_categories
[[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_categories"]]http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_categories[[/LINK]]
Mike McAlister comments:
No, not that easy. This is for plugin settings, so you can't just paste wp_dropdown_categories in there.
Mike
Luis Abarca comments:
Just get the category from your plugin options
$radar_options = get_option('radar_options');
$category_selected = $radar_options['blog_category'];
wp_dropdown_categories(array('name' => "radar_options[blog_category]", 'selected' => $category_selected) );
Mike McAlister comments:
This does bring in the categories as it should, but it doesn't seem to be saving. I've tried to echo out the blog_category setting and it returns blank.
Mike McAlister comments:
Apologies, it DOES work. I had another option resetting it by accident. Good stuff, Luis.
Kailey Lampert answers:
Luis' answer looks good to me. Where's it falling short for your needs?
Mike McAlister comments:
This does bring in the categories as it should, but it doesn't seem to be saving. I've tried to echo out the blog_category setting and it returns blank.
Mike McAlister comments:
He was right, I had a stupid piece of duplicate code screwing things up. D'oh!