Dropdown Shortcode

Owned by Rachel Klingler
Last updated: Mar 15, 2016
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The Dropdown shortcode adds a dropdown of post archives to a page, like you would see on an post page.

post_type

This specifies which type of post to display. The options are: uwsa_news_post for news, post for blog posts, camups_story for For Wisconsin campus stories. 

You must include either a taxonomy, monthy or yearly attribute to specify what the dropdown will be.

taxonomy

Use this attribute to This specifies what the dropdown will dispay. For news stories, the only option is news-categories. For posts, the option is category. For campus stories, the options are topic and institution.  

monthly

Specify monthly="true" to have a monthly dropdown.

yearly

Specify yearly="true" to have a yearly dropdown.

[dropdown post_type="post" yearly="true"]

[dropdown post_type="post" monthly="true"]

[dropdown post_type="post" taxonomy="category"]

[dropdown post_type="uwsa_news_post" taxonomy="news-categories"]

[dropdown post_type="campus_story" taxonomy="topic"]

[dropdown post_type="campus_story" taxonomy="institution"]