Postslider.php: Show only the parent category-name

Hi Andy,

there are only five parent categories: “Pfarrei”, “St. Anna”, “St. Ludgerus”, “St, Pantaleon”, “St. Stephanus”. These five categories are all on the same (top)-level. All of these five categories already have/will have children one level beneath.
I want to display only these five top-level-/parent-categories in the meta-section of each post in the postslider.php. The child-categories (i.e. “Fusion”, attached to the parent-category “Pfarrei”) should not appear in the meta-section.

The code I’m actually using to display the names of the attached categories (parent- and child-categories) in the meta-section of each post is:

						$taxonomies  = get_object_taxonomies(get_post_type($the_id));
						$cats = '';
						$excluded_taxonomies =  apply_filters('avf_exclude_taxonomies', array('post_tag','post_format'), get_post_type($the_id), $the_id);

						if(!empty($taxonomies))
						{
							foreach($taxonomies as $taxonomy)
							{
								if(!in_array($taxonomy, $excluded_taxonomies))
								{
									$cats .= get_the_term_list($the_id, $taxonomy, '', ', ','').' ';
								}
							}
						}

						if(!empty($cats))
						{
							$output .= '<div class="slide-meta-cats">';
							$output .= $cats;
							$output .= '</div><div class="slide-meta-del">|</div>';
						}

I hope that these informations make my intention more clear.

Thx,
ehnatnor

Hi Yigit,

thanks for your reply!
But your changes to the code don’t work. The difference between the listed code in my post above and yours is just the function “get_cat_name” vs. “get_the_term_list”. With my code all categories of a post are listed in the meta-section. With the “get_cat_name” function it’s only possible to show a specific category by its ID. Actually no category is listed if I use your code.

I’m still searching for a solution that allows me to show just the top-level-category of a post in the meta-section of the postslider.php.
It would be great if someone could help me.

Thanks in advance,
ehnatnor

Hi Yigit,

since my last post I still haven’t found what I was looking for. With your code nothing changed as I wrote in my last post. Do you have any other proposals how to reach my goal.

Regards,
ehnatnor

Hi Ismael,

I’ve pasted the example in my postslider.php but nothing happened. Now no category is listed in the post-meta-section.
I changed it back to my old version but I’m a little bit helpless …

ehnatnor