I'm not a php developer. I'm an asp, asp.net, c#, sql, xhtml, and my god how boring that sounds when you make a list developer. I've been able to figure out enough to change a bit of functionality. But I'm having some trouble here.

I want to add an id attribute to root nodes in the category tree. This seems pretty easy; just grab the category name and use str_replace() to clean spaces. I can see that a dot is the string concatenation operator, and I can put ids into the links themselves. I guess I could make that work, but it would make a lot more sense to go after the lists or list items instead.

Any advice? I know it's in ./wp-includes/category-template.php, but I'm not seeing where the uls I want are generated.

Not quite sure what you're looking for here, but in my category-template.php, (on line 92) I have a "get_the_category_list" function, is that it?

Forrest step back from the code for a minute. What are you ultimately trying to achieve by adding the ids? There might be a way to do it without having to directly change category-template.php. Maybe not, but you never know.

Or you could look at this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...wp-list-pages/

Let us know if you solved your issues you were having

I had a feeling there might be a plugin to take care of things. There usually is.