Title: Category Ajax Chain Selects
Author: peterjharrison
Published: <strong>21 August 2009</strong>
Last modified: 29 December 2011

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest three major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Category Ajax Chain Selects

 By [peterjharrison](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterjharrison/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/category-ajax-chain-selects.3.7.zip)

 * [Details](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/category-ajax-chain-selects/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/category-ajax-chain-selects/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/category-ajax-chain-selects/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/category-ajax-chain-selects/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-ajax-chain-selects/)

## Description

This plugin makes it easy to have chain select category/custom taxonomy drop downs
in your theme using Ajax.

The plugin was created as a way for me to use chain selects on a number of websites
I have built over the past few
 years. As it was my first attempt at making a WordPress
plugin, I thought it would be best to go back and update it to work with the latest
version of WordPress and is now compatible with custom taxonomies.

Feel free to visit my website www.peterjharrison.me or contact me at
 me@peterjharrison.
me

Have fun!

## Installation

 1. Upload the full directory into your wp-content/plugins directory
 2. Activate it in the Plugin options
 3. Add the template tag: `<?php echo chainselect_getcategories('taxonomy name'); ?
    >` into you page template.
 4. For more options please see the plugin page.

## FAQ

For help and support please see: (http://www.peterjharrison.me/2011/11/category-
ajax-chain-select-re-written-from-scratch-wordpress-plugin/).

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Outstanding only one plugin for category ajax chain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outstanding-only-one-plugin-for-category-ajax-chain/)󠁿

 [kedarlive](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kedarlive/) 3 September 2016

Sir you are amazing. Thanks for this super plugin. Looked similar plugins for couple
of days but didn't found any. works excellent. But how can we rename the text 'undefined'.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-ajax-chain-selects/reviews/)

## Contributors and Developers

“Category Ajax Chain Selects” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ peterjharrison ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterjharrison/)

[Translate “Category Ajax Chain Selects” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/category-ajax-chain-selects)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/category-ajax-chain-selects/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/category-ajax-chain-selects/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/category-ajax-chain-selects/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/category-ajax-chain-selects/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Change Log

#### 3.7

Added compatibility for WordPress install in subfolders

#### 3.6

Added compatibility for category_base

#### 3.5

Fixed headers already sent issue

#### 3.4

Fixed issue with URL for default category

#### 3.3

Fixed issue with loading styles.

#### 3.0

Re-written from scratch to add new features and support for custom taxonomies.

#### 2.0

Was scrapped.

#### 1.0

First version of plugin.

## Meta

 *  Version **3.7**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.3.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-ajax-chain-selects/)
 * Tags
 * [ajax](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[categories](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)
   [category](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[chain select](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/chain-select/)
   [drop down](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/drop-down/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/category-ajax-chain-selects/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  3 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-ajax-chain-selects/reviews/?filter=5)
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## Contributors

 *   [ peterjharrison ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterjharrison/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-ajax-chain-selects/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://www.peterjharrison.me)