Showing just the child category titles of a parent

Question

I have a category group with parents each with 1 level of children.

On my category entry page I want to list JUST the children of the current category being viewed.

I'm sure it's simple but I can't figure what to put in my category template?

Many thanks in advance.

Martin

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 29 '15 at 18:59

You should actually already have a variable named "category" pre-assigned by Craft, if you've set up your categories to have URLs in the category settings.

So this simplified code is probably all you need.

{% set subCategories = craft.categories.descendantOf(category) %}

{% if subCategories|length %}
    <ul>
        {% for category in subCategories %}
            <li><a href="{{ category.url }}">{{ category.title }}</a></li>
        {% endfor %}
    </ul>
{% else %}
    {% exit 404 %}    
{% endif %}

To have different template code for your sub-category pages you're linking to, I would put the code above in a partial _partials/mainCategory and include it with the include function.

{% if category.level == 1 %}
    {% include '_partials/mainCategory' %}
{% else %}
    {% include '_partials/subCategory' %}
{% endif %}

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:51

Of course after posting my question I immediately find an answer!!!

Would be good if someone can confirm this is the best way?

      {% set categories = craft.categories.group('areaOfPractice') %}
        {% for category in categories %}
          {% set thisIsActiveCategory = (category.slug == craft.request.segment(2)) %}
            {% if thisIsActiveCategory %}
              {% set subCategories = craft.categories.descendantOf(category) %}
              <ul>
                {% for subCat in subCategories %}
                <li><a href="{{ subCat.url }}">{{ subCat.title }}</a></li>
                {% endfor %}
              </ul>
            {% endif %}
        {% endfor %}

Showing just the child category titles of a parent

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