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1. Situation
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hello.

   I am tryin' to show a different banner on every category page, instead of the boring <h2> that is default on archive.php file.

   So I created a banner for every category, and named it after the category's title; for example, category "Pizza" has a banner called pizza.gif, and category "Chinese Food" has a banner called chinese-food.gif.

   After that, I put this code on my archive.php file (where blahblahblah is my URL), 'cause I didn't want to write an is_category conditional for EVERY category:
   <img src="http://blahblahblah/<?php single_cat_title (); ?>.gif">

   Now, when I open the various categories on my browser, I can only see the banners whose filename is a one-word one. Not the others.

   So, to avoid the problem, I thought I could rename the banners with the category's ID, and change the php code into my <img> tag, but I found that the tag the_category_ID is not active anymore....

   What can I do?

2. Situation
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Anyone?

3. dbasulto
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   you can try with `<?php category_nicename() ?>
   `
   i think that hook converts "Categories With Spaces" to categories-with-spaces

   or you can try:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_the_category#Show_Category_Images

4. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Check out Category_Templates?

5. halfbloodprince
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   According to the Codex,

   <?php the_category_ID(); ?> has been replaced by

   <?php
   foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
       echo $category->cat_ID . ' ';
   } ?>

   So you could try doing it this way:

   <img src="<?php
   foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
       echo $category->cat_ID . ' ';
   } ?>.gif" alt="" />

6. Situation
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   @dbasulto:

   I tried with

   <?php category_nicename() ?>

   but got nothing, and with the code written into the link you suggested me, but the result is that I see banners for ALL categories associated with the posts.

   So, if I go to www.example.com/category/pizza, I want to get only the pizza.gif banner, not the other categories, too.

7. Situation
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   anyone else?

8. Jon Griffith
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   So the concept is to set a variable that holds the value from the category and then use it wherever...right?

   the_category_ID was displaying on the page and I couldn't figure out how to hide the category number while also using the_category_ID in a conditional statement.

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