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1. zyend
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm kinda lost on how to do this,

   Detect subcategory then post a few more with the same subcategory, sort of like I have a feature post, with Category A and Sub B, I want to detect it's sub category then pull 6 more from the same Sub B as "Some thing you may also like..."

   Also the feature post is randomly pulled from Category A, may have different subcategory.

   One more thing, I've coded few themes, so 'code-speak' is welcomed. Just not on top of things today... and getting stuck on this.

   Thanks in advance.

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You could use Function_Reference/get_the_category to return the categories for a post then use that to query for other posts:

   <?php
   $parent='';
   foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
   if ($category->parent != 0 ) {
   $parent=$category->parent;
   }
   echo 'parent is '.$parent;
   ?>

3. zyend
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank you!

4. zyend
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks after final changes, the code to grab subcategory of a post as follows:

   foreach((get_the_category($post->ID)) as $category) {
   	if ($category->category_parent == 4 ) {
   		$subcat=$category->cat_ID;
   	}
   };

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