Post Title Links or Dropdown at Top of Category Archives

[Au Coeur]

I have a client who is using category archives to organize a lot of posts on their website. They would like all post titles in each category to be available at the top of the category archive in either a list or a dropdown, so that any individual post can be found without scrolling. I know I can do this by adding a widget area to the top of each category and using a plugin like Featured Posts Amplified, but there are a lot of categories and I would love to set this up as a feature that is automatically available should the client create more categories in the future. Can anyone recommend a plugin? Or does anyone have an idea about how I might utilize Bill's display post shortcodes to and add this into the functions file?

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[Susan]

As you posted this a while ago, I hope you got your issue resolved. If not, please let me know, and I will take a look (or escalate if I cannot help).

If it is resolved, please mark it resolved, so that the thread can be closed.

Thanks!

[Au Coeur]

Nope, never got it resolved.

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[Au Coeur]

...I also never spent a lot of time trying to figure it out with Bill's plugin.

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[Au Coeur]

Hi Susan,

I am working on this now. The problem I seem to have is related to the current category generation. I am trying to use this code:

//* Add List Above Category Archives
function post_list_on_category_archive() {
if ( is_category() ) {
    	echo '<div class="before-category">';
	echo do_shortcode( '[display-posts posts_per_page="-1" order="ASC" orderby="title" columns="2" category="$category_id"]' );
	$category_id = get_query_var( 'cat' );
	echo '</div>';
}

};

add_action('genesis_before_content', 'post_list_on_category_archive');

If I remove "category=..." the short code will display as expected. But for some reason adding in category="$category_id" returns nothing where the shortcode should be.

Thoughts?

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