category feature request

[medicalhumor]

hey guys,

for a future release, how about the ability to create sub categories?

for instance, if you have a .csv of business listings, select 'State' as main category and 'Business Type' as sub category.

[nickmattern]

hey guys,

for a future release, how about the ability to create sub categories?

for instance, if you have a .csv of business listings, select 'State' as main category and 'Business Type' as sub category.

I totally agree. How do you have your category field formatted? What would be easiest for you RE: the syntax for defining categories/subcategories?

"category,subcategory,3rdcategory,4thcategory"
or
"category;subcategory;3rdcategory;4thcategory"

or some other scheme? We're open to suggestions.

[medicalhumor]

hmmm, not quite sure how the best approach would be.

Personally, I can format my data any way I need to, but would be nice if there was some way to have States as main cat, and each State would have all the sub categories.

Not sure how flexible WordPress is.

Alaska
- restaurants
- hair salons
- attorneys

Alabama
- restaurants
- hair salons
- attorneys

etc...

[Tangy]

In my opinion the best way to manage this would be to have options to use multiple columns as nested categories / subcategories.

So on the Category selection screen for WFReview - it currently says:

Create posts under a single category...

or

… or, specify a column from the data file with the category name.

In a future release, it would be great to have:

Specify a column from the data file with the Parent Category name

and then

(Optional) Specify a column from the data file with the Sub-Category name

with the sub-category, of course, being a sub-category of the Parent Category that comes from the first answer.

This would allow a CSV to have like

Business Type, City, State, Country

and then in WFReview we could choose:

Country as the Parent
State as Sub-Category 1 (a Sub-Category of the Parent)
City as Sub-Category 2 (a Sub-Category of Category 1)

and in WordPress, this will result in the categories cascading correctly

Country
-State
--City

Make sense?!