I have been working with Topspin for a few years now and recently worked with them to create our theme “Lucidity Catalog” – with their artists in mind. Check out the recent Lucidity Catalog blog post I put together for them on their developers’ blog.

There are many times when you need to show or get the top most (root) parent category in WordPress - regardless of how many subcategories you might be deep. I have used this logic for page navigation (highlight the top parent tab) - as well as within some custom loops/sidebar code.

They way to do this:

To test this you can simply put it in your header and echo out $topParent and you will see the "slug" of the category.
If you want to see the category name and not necessarily the slug - you can simply echo $topParentName.

We recently finished a project where we had to create a PDF on the fly of the user's filled out application (~12 pages of data) so they could keep a copy. To do this - I looked at a few libraries out there and then ended up using HTML_toPDF. I had used another script from the same guy who put together HTML_toPDF and thus prompted me to use this one as well. The script works great and our client is very happy. If you ever need this capability - check out HTML_toPDF!

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