Hello,

I am working on customizing the home page template for my flataland child theme and trying to reveal the hiearchy of three (3) nested categories with child subcategories. I have created an override function in my child theme and I am invoking it from template-home.php as such :


nicethemes_knowledgebase_vdm( array(
'columns' => 3,
'numberposts' => 30,
'orderby' => 'title',
'before' => '',
'after' => ''
)
);


Somehow, I cannot figure out how to get my category tree to show as such on my home page, any clues or hints? Is this functionnaluty, which is clearly part of the nicethemes_knowledgebase() function executed only when using a shortcode tag, which is not my usage scenario?

Here is what I woul expect to obtain, the result I am looking after, repeated 3 columns wide :


* Root category one (C)
- Article a (Ca)
- Article b (Cb)
** Sub category one (C1)
-- Article a (C1a)
-- Article b (C1a)
-- Article c (C1a)
** Sub category three (C3)
-- Article a (C3a)


So, some articles may inherit only from the root category, some other articles may inherit from a child category of the root category, and should therefore, in our usage logic, be nested under the child category. The subcat title should remain hyperlinked.

If this may not be achieved using arguments for the function, what kind of alterations would you suggest in order to get the subcategory display to occur in my child theme override function (nicethemes_knowledgebase_vdm)?

Thanks for your tip, I much appreciate your time, please direct me to another ticket if I have not seen an answer to my question in another post on the subject in the forums, I created an account for support as I could not find one that clearly documented this specific need.