categories

Generally speaking this should produce the structure you’re looking for. It’s 4 separate WP_query loops, and each loop pulls in posts from the category named. <div id=”portfolio”> <div class=”col”> <?php $cat1 = new WP_query(array(‘category_name’ => ‘design’)); if($cat1->have_posts()) : while($cat1->have_posts()) : $cat1->the_post(); ?> <div class=”item”> <?php if(has_post_thumbnail()) { the_post_thumbnail(); } ?> </div> <?php endwhile; endif; ?> … Read more

I would use a combination of get_categories and get_category_children to achieve this. For example: On the home page include something like this: <?php $args=array( ‘orderby’ => ‘name’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ ); $categories=get_categories($args); foreach($categories as $category) { $catChildren = get_term_by($category->ID, ‘category’); if(!empty($catChildren)) { echo ‘<h3><a href=www.yourwebsite.com/”‘ . $category->slug . ‘”>’ . $category->name . ‘</h3>’; } } … Read more

The WordPress template hierarchy indicates that index.php is the template used, if category.php and archive.php are missing. So, you can insert your code in index.php, and wrap it in a is_category conditional to make sure it’s only executed when a category archive is being displayed: <?php if( is_category() ) { // category description } ?>

Open the page which is rendering the category posts, and in the appropriate place (before running the loop) write the following code <?php $catid = get_cat_id(); $color = “#222”; //default; if ($catid == $pinkCategoryId) $color = “#8B0A50”; else if ($catid == $redCategoryId) $color = “#FF0000″; ?> <style type=”text/css”> a { color: <?php echo $color;?>; } … Read more

get_the_category() isn’t the correct function – you should be using get_categories() per the dev documentation.