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1. afruit
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   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm building a tumblr-styled theme in wordpress, but I want to lay out the posts in the main blog timeline differently depending on category. To do so, I thought it'd be as simple as pulling the category name into class="_______" .

   The main "the_category" tag produces a link, with breaks the attempt to use it as a style, and I haven't had luck with "get_the_category".

   Anyone have ideas on this?

   NOTE: I'm not attempting to style the individual article/post pages differently. This I know how to achieve. Rather, I want to achieve a different look for each entry-category in the main blog timeline. Tumblr does this by default, by giving each post a class name equal to it's category.

2. afruit
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   So I've tried:
   <div class="<?php the_category( ); ?>">
   and:
   <div class="<?php get_the_category( ); ?>">

   Also, tried:
   <div class="<?php single_cat_title( ); ?>">

   None worked, but I'm not sure I'm using any of them correctly.

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