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Shortcode Summary

Allows the user to retrieve a listing of all categories.


##Use Cases

###1. Display all categories ordered by amount of items

User wishes to display all categories for his ecommerce site and order them by the amount of items in each category

Example:

[categories numcols=3 orderby=count]

##Elements Utilized

  • Title
  • Featured Image
  • View Item Link

##Attributes

  • id
  • class
  • numcols
  • orderby
  • order

###Attrbiutes Explained

id(optional)

Used for adding an identification name to the element which will contain the posts.

Default: ultimate-products-category

Example:

[categories id="my-categories"]


class(optional)

Used for adding a class to the element which will contain the posts.

Default: ultimate-products-category-class

Example:

[categories class="my-categories-class"]


numcols(optional)

Displays the categories in a set number of columns

Note: Number of columns is determined by Twitter Bootrap's default of 12 columns and whatever the user specifies in the shortcode.

Default: 4

Example:

[categories numcols=5]


numcols(optional)

Displays the categories in a set number of columns

Note: Number of columns is determined by Twitter Bootrap's default of 12 columns and whatever the user specifies in the shortcode.

Default: 4

Example:

[categories numcols=5]