you probably need to get the parent category of each of the post’s categories first. <?php $parent_cat = array(); $post_cats = get_the_category($post->ID); foreach( $post_cats as $post_cat ) { if( $post_cat->parent ) $parent_cat[] = get_category( $post_cat->parent )->slug; } ?> <article class=”post <?php if ( in_array( ‘dream-it’, $parent_cat ) ) { echo ‘ dreamit’; } if ( … Read more
And this is the indirect way I am using now. If there is any better answer please do share. while ( have_posts() ) { the_post(); $cat = get_query_var(‘cat’); $categories = wp_get_post_categories(get_the_ID()); if (in_array($cat, $categories)) { … } } // end loop
As anything that has to do with stats this is really an analytics task and as such not something that WP does natively. You options are: installing (if not already) some kind of analytics solution and getting data from it add code to that post that will track referers (I won’t really recommend this since … Read more
You’ll probally want to use WP Conditional tags and do something like this: if(is_home()){ //show home menu } else if(is_page(‘mypage’)){ //show category menu for JUST that page } else{ //show the menu for all other pages } What you do inside each conditional statement is up to you. Here are 3 solutions: Use CSS and … Read more
I would suggest looking at a plugin like images for categories and seeing if you can extend it to allow 2 images per category.
Ok… as thing go when your trying to solve somethimg you have no peace until its fixed so.. i went ahead and did some clear mind thinking (after a night sleep) and got that i can check the HTML for the values returen. Just wanted to share incase anyone stumbles with the need for this … Read more
// This alters the get get_terms() arguments and hides some categories function widget_category_excluder( $args ) { // Replace the numbers with category IDs you need hidden $args[‘exclude’] = $args[‘exclude’].’,1,2,3,’; // Keep it safe! // Or use exclude_tree to exclude children categories also // $args[‘exclude’] = $args[‘exclude’].’,1,2,3,’; // Keep it safe! // (,1,2,3, is enclosed in … Read more
This should help you, the second diagram… this one. Just copy the index.php code to the properly named category-*.php file and see if it works.
To make the first post different you could add a post counter and change the output on the first loop. $counter = 0 while ( $cat_posts->have_posts() ) { $cat_posts->the_post(); $counter++; if ( $counter == 0 ) { // Out put the different loop } //Normal loop output
When using cat in the query you need to specify the category id not name. Try this. <?php $gallery = get_cat_id(‘gallery’); $shirts = get_cat_id(‘shirts’); $hoodies = get_cat_id(‘hoodies’); $excluded_cats=”-“.$gallery.’,-‘.$shirts.’,-‘.$hoodies; $limit = 5; $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; query_posts( ‘cat=”.$excluded_cats.”&showposts=” . $limit . “&paged=’ . $paged ); ?>