Display only parent categories in WordPress

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Post summary: If you want to list all Post Categories in WordPress without displaying the child categories, then you must use parent = 0 in the query. Here is the example which display the category links wrapped by the DIV.

If you want to list all Post Categories in WordPress without displaying the child categories, then you must use parent = 0 in the query. Here is the example which display the category links wrapped by the DIV.

<?php
$args = array(
    'taxonomy'           => 'category',
    'hide_empty'         => 0,
    'orderby'            => 'name',
    'order'              => 'ASC',
    'show_count'         => 0,
    'use_desc_for_title' => 0,
    'title_li'           => 0,
    'style'              => 'none',
    'echo'               => 0,
    'parent'             => 0,
);

$categories = wp_list_categories($args);
if ( $categories ) {
    printf( '<div class="cat-links">%s</div>', $categories );
}
?>

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