Within the post loop you can do, $category = get_the_category(); if($category[0]->cat_name == “featured”) { //if first category in array is “featured”, get next category in line $name = $category[1]->cat_name; $cat_id = get_cat_ID( $name ); $link = get_category_link( $cat_id ); echo ‘<a href=”‘. esc_url( $link ) .'””>’. $name .'</a>’; } else { //get the first category … Read more
cat accepts category IDs, not slugs or names. a better method here is to use the pre_get_posts action, the Codex page has an example that does exactly what you’re trying to do.
I think you could do something like this: $categories = get_the_category(); $displayed_category_id = 1; // set this to the category ID you want to show $output=””; if($categories){ foreach($categories as $category) { if ( $displayed_category_id == $category->term_id) { $output .= ‘<a href=”‘.get_category_link($category->term_id ).'” title=”‘ . esc_attr( sprintf( __( “View all posts in %s” ), $category->name ) … Read more
Top level categories will have value 0 for the parent, so check that before adding to the array: foreach( $categories as $category ) { if( 0 != $category->parent ) { array_push( $cat_ID, $category->cat_ID ); } }
Exclude Categories from wp_list_categories()
How to exclude a category in the following Code?
You can use “category__not_in” array parameter. Also, I’ve modified your code just a bit, you should use wordpress best practice which is “if -> while” to display the posts. Please try these code below as I haven’t tested it yet. <?php // Default arguments $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 6, // How many items to … Read more
post__in and tag__not_in conflict
You could go to the wordpress menu and make the target of the link a #. If the user clicks on it, they are taken to the top of the page where they probably are anyway since they’re using the navigation.
If the URL being “hard-coded” is the problem you can use get_category_link foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) { if ($cat->cat_ID !=’12’) echo ‘<a href=”‘.get_category_link($cat->cat_ID).'”> | ‘ . $cat->cat_name . ‘</a>’; }