You should be able to modify the function like so.

function desc_cats(){
foreach (get_categories(array('hide_empty'=>true)) as $category)
{
$catid = $category->cat_ID;
echo '<div><h3><a href="' . get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/category/' . $category->category_nicename . '/">' .
$category->cat_name . ' (' . $category->count.$numposts.')</a></h3>' . category_description($catid) . '<hr></div>' . "\n";
}
};


And call it like so:
<?php desc_cats(); ?>

That will make each category in it’s own div with a <h3> and a link for the title and ending with a horizontal rule.

As for paginating the results, not sure off hand. That really has nothign to do with the base of this function.

1) I want to add pagination. I have over 500 categories, and if all of them are listed WITH their descriptions, its a looooong and laggy page. So maybe only like..50 per page.

2) I want to add an in between the listed categories to space them out a little and make it look nice.

I totally see what you mean. I think that would be best left for a manual setting like you are doing. My home page has a hack to only show 4 posts. My archive is using pagination set to 6 posts. So I would think it would be easier to set the category script to the max number you are showing and just send the link to page 2.

Since there is only a few areas that need modification, it’s not too difficult.

Glad it worked for you.

But one thing to make it perfect would be that the link ‘view more’ would give an archive page that starts with post nr6

I do that now like this

echo ‘category_nicename . ‘/page/2/”>View more‘ . “\n”;

But if you have in your settings 10 posts on a page you have a problem there. You lose flexebility. cause page 2 would start with post 11.

You see what i mean?

Again thanks a lot!

Now to your real question.


function cat_and_posts(){
foreach (get_categories(array('hide_empty'=>true)) as $category)
{
$catid = $category->cat_ID;
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=100&category='.$catid);
echo '<li>' . $category->cat_name . "\n";
echo '<ul>' . "\n";
$count = 0;
foreach($myposts as $post) {
echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a></li>' . "\n";
$count++;
if ($count >= 5){
echo '<li><a href="' . get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/category/' . $category->category_nicename . '/">View more</a></li>' . "\n";
break;
}
}
echo '</ul>' . "\n";
echo '</li>' . "\n";
}
};


We’re going to start a count of the posts. Once it reaches 5 it will add a link to the archives for that category and stop the script.

Now this will not make a link for categories with less than 5 posts.

Hope that works for you.

@submarine,

That looks like an interesting plug-in. I might play with it soon.

I have a question for now your code shows only 5 post within the cat.
if there are more posts in the cat how can i ad a link to these posts?

I don’t want to show more post but find out if there are more than ‘5′ posts and if so a link to the archive page.

foreach($myposts as $post) {
echo ‘‘ . get_the_title() . ‘‘ . “\n”;
}
—-HERE THE if more than 5 echo and than a link to the previous posts
echo ” . “\n”;
echo ” . “\n”;

I hope you can solve this , i looked everywhere for a solution.

Thanks!

cheer
Tony

Instead of echoing out the list item, add it to a variable and then usu PHP strip_tags function to remove the break tag and then echo out the result like so:

$catdesc = '<li><a href="' . get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/category/' . $category->category_nicename . '/">' .
$category->cat_name . ' (' . $category->count.$numposts.')</a>' . category_description($catid) . '</li>' . "\n";
$catty = strip_tags($catdesc, '<p><a><li>');
echo $catty;