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1. Misterpayne112
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   i already have query code to display the last 5 posts of the same category on a single page post. i am looking for a query or code to display the last 5 posts of the parent category on the same page. is there anyone who can help with that? or can it simply not be done?

2. MichaelH
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   <?php
   $mycat=9; // use your category here
   $categories = get_categories('include='.$mycat);
   echo 'this is the parent ' .$categories[0]->category_parent
   ?>

3. Misterpayne112
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   the only thing that code says is... "this is the parent" it says that no matter the post, no matter the category.

   i use this code below for the current category on a sing post page:

   <?php
   if (is_single( )) {
   $post_ID = $wp_query->posts[0]->ID;
   $all_cats_of_post = get_the_category($post_ID);
   $first_cat_ID = $all_cats_of_post[0]->cat_ID;
   $first_cat_name = $all_cats_of_post[0]->cat_name;
   ?>
   <div id="category-posts-<?php echo $first_cat_ID; ?>" class="widget widget_recent_entries">
   <div class="widget-title"><b>Last 5 posts in <?php echo $first_cat_name; ?>:</b></div>
   <div class="widget-content">
   <table width=450><tr><td width=5%></td><td>
   <?php global $post; $cat_posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&category='.$first_cat_ID);
   foreach($cat_posts as $post) : ?>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li><br />
   <?php endforeach; ?>
   </div>
   </div>
   <?php } ?>
   </td></tr></table>

   it displays the category name and links automatically, and i was looking for something similar for the parent category. for example if it is a post in my 'wrestling news' category, i want to show the last 5 post in that category (like i already do) and the last 5 post overall in the parent 'wrestling' category.

   is there a query or other way of doing that?

4. MichaelH
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   My code was just an example to show you how to get the parent of a given category. So now that you've presented your code we can use something a bit different:

   In your case you need another get_posts loop to retrieve the posts in the parent category:

   So after this line:
   

   $first_cat_name = $all_cats_of_post[0]->cat_name;

   add this:
   

   $first_cat_parent = $all_cats_of_post[0]->category_parent

   Then use the variable $first_cat_parent in your loop--for example:
   

   <?php
   if {$first_cat_parent) {
   $parent_posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&category='.$first_cat_parent);
   foreach($parent_posts as $post) : ?>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li><br />
   <?php endforeach;
   }  // if $first_cat_parent
   ?>

5. Misterpayne112
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   ok that is great! just what i wanted! i have the links set up and they are working. my only problem (small problem) that i have left is getting the name to show up.

   i am using:

   <div class="widget-title"><b>Last 5 posts in <?php echo $first_cat_parent; ?>:</b></div>

   that is showing the parent category number (i.e. 49, 27, etc.) but I want it to show the name instead. i tried:

   <div class="widget-title"><b>Last 5 posts in <?php echo $first_cat_parent_name; ?>:</b></div>

   but that didn't work.

6. MichaelH
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   See http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/category_description

7. taeke
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   @MichaelH, I'm using your excellent piece of code above. One question though, how would I go about to exclude the current post from the list of posts under the same category?

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