I would like to display the full list of categories on the Page creation page, so that the user can pick using checkboxes which category posts should appear on that page.
I then need to retrieve the chosen categories for that specific page in my custom page templates, so that I can modify my loop to filter for only those chosen categories.
I would like to display the full list of categories on the Page creation page, so that the user can pick using checkboxes which category posts should appear on that page.
I then need to retrieve the chosen categories for that specific page in my custom page templates, so that I can modify my loop to filter for only those chosen categories.
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Reset to default 2By default page post type doesn't support category taxonomy. But you can easily fix it by register category taxonomy for page post type:
add_action( 'init', 'wpse8170_init' );
function wpse8170_init() {
register_taxonomy_for_object_type( 'category', 'page' );
}
Now you will see categories meta box in the same place as you see it at post creation page.
To get page's categories just call wp_get_post_categories function like this (thanks to @Subharanjan):
$page_categories = wp_get_post_categories( get_the_ID() );
$page_categories = wp_get_post_categories( get_the_ID() );
Pass the current page id/ any pageid as the param and get the asociated categories.