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My sub-categories links are not working! I decided to show only the top categories on my sidebar. The following describes how I do it:
Modify function get_categories in category.php

• Add show_top option in $defaults.
  

  	$defaults = array('type' => 'post', 'child_of' => 0, 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC',
  		'hide_empty' => true, 'include_last_update_time' => false, 'hierarchical' => 1, 'exclude' => '',
  		'include' => '', 'number' => '', 'pad_counts' => false, 'show_top' => false);
  

• Add to the sql where criteria if $show_top is true.
  

  	if ($show_top)
  		$where .= ' AND category_parent = 0';
  

• Modify my sidebar.php
  

  <?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&hierarchical=0&show_top=true') ?>
  

I notice the various variables used for the options (eg. $hierarchical) are never initialized anywhere. There is this odd looking statement extract($r); (see the function documentation here), now, I understand how this works!