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1. Jaaaarne
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello everybody!

   I've tried searching but nothing came up in Codex. Please help me find a solution, it's very important to me.

   There are two categories on my site for which I need single post pages look differently. One category is News, so each news post will only need to have a date/time. The other is Articles in which every article will need to have a source named/linked (a newspaper, magazine, website etc.), but don't need to have a date. So, I'm using the same div container to display different information depending on a category to which the post belongs. If it's a News post, then the date and time should be displayed, and if it's an Article, then the source should be displayed instead (I'm using post_meta for that).

   Is there a way to do that? It's easy with displaying different categories differently, but I found no information on displaying different posts differently. Please help me, I'll be so grateful. :)

2. t31os
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Use custom fields..

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields

   Then switch the content depending on the presence of a custom field, or the value of that field...

3. Jaaaarne
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thank you. That was not what I was asking about, but I've found a solution myself. :)

4. t31os
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Custom fields would handle the situation you presented, but if you have a solution then that's what matters... ;)

5. Jaaaarne
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Well, I knew that custom fields are exactly what I needed, and I had no problem using them. They worked okay. What I had problem with was the actual switching, since I'm not that good with PHP. :) While searching for the solution I finally found a Codex article describing the Variable Sidebar: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags and I worked from there. In the single post template in the place where I needed the content switched I put this conditional tag with categories' id. Since there are only two categories, it was easier to do:

   <?php
   if (in_category('3')) {
           echo "<div class=\"press-meta\"> <span class=\"press-copy\"> ";
           $author = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'author', true);
   	echo($author);
   	echo " &nbsp; | &nbsp; ";
           $source = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'source', true);
   	echo($source);
           echo " </span> ";
   	the_time('d.m.Y');
           echo " </div>";
   } else {
           echo "<small> ";
   	the_time('d.m.Y');
   	echo " @ ";
   	the_time('G:i');
   	echo " ";
   	the_tags('&nbsp; | &nbsp; ', ', ', '');
   	echo " </small> <br />";
   }
   ?>

   So, if WP sees the post belongs to the Articles category, it displays the author and the name of the original publisher along with the publish date, and when it sees it's a News post, it displays the date and the time of the news along with the post's tags.

6. t31os
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If it works... :)

   Although i have to point out there is one small addition you could make here...

   $author = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'author', true);

   You're not performing any check to see if this returns a value (same with $source)....

   Essentially this won't return anything when the field doesn't exist, but i'd do it like so....

   $author = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'author', true);
   if($author) {echo $author;}

   Not sure it'll make a huge difference, but the current way still echo's $author even if it doesn't have any value...

   Also..

   echo($source) need not have brackets...
   echo $source; will work fine...

   Perhaps it might be a little easier on the eyes like so...

   <?php if(in_category('3')) : ?>
     <div class="press-meta">
       <span class="press-copy">
       <?php
       $author = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'author', true);
       $source = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'source', true);
   
       if($author) {
           echo $author;
       }
           echo ' &nbsp; | &nbsp; ';
   
       if($source) {
           echo $source;
       }
       ?>
       </span>
       <?php the_time('d.m.Y');?>
     </div>
   <?php else :?>
     <small>
       <?php the_time('d.m.Y'); ?> @ <?php the_time('G:i');?> <?php the_tags('&nbsp; | &nbsp; ', ', ', '');?>
     </small>
     <br />
   <?php endif;?>

7. Jaaaarne
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Like I said, I'm not good with PHP :) My version does work for me and that's okay. But thank you for your corrections, I'll be glad to apply them if you don't mind. :)

8. t31os
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Go for it... ;)

   Any problems, post back... :-)

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