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1. wireframe74
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi I have site where I need to include a template if a page is a descendent of a grandfather page.

   At the moment I have a conditional statement that searches for child pages of subcategory but I really need to have a conditional that looks for the main category instead. If I cannot get this to work the client will need me to update menu manually each time a new subcategory is created which is less than ideal.

   Here is what I am using at the moment:

   if ($post->post_parent == '69'|| $post->post_parent == '82'|| $post->post_parent == '15'|| $post->post_parent == '15') {
     include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/collection-seating-accordian.php'); 
   
   }

   The id of the main category/grandfather page is 71.

   Thanks!

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   it is totally not clear where you are applying your conditional statement, because your are mixing pages and categories:
   the following is for the category archive:

   this will build an array with all the ancestor category ids of the current category archive; and check for the grandparent ancestor of the category:

   $cat_id = get_query_var('cat'); // get the category id for the test
   	$cat_ancestors = array();
            $grandparent_cat = '';
   	$cat_ancestors[] = $cat_id;
   	do {
   	$cat_id = get_category($cat_id);
   	$cat_id = $cat_id->parent;
   	$cat_ancestors[] = $cat_id; }
   	while ($cat_id);
   	if($cat_ancestors[2]) $grandparent_cat = $cat_ancestors[2];

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