I think you want to do something like:
<?php if ( is_category('1') ) { ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
?>
<?php } elseif ( is_category('2') ){ ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image2.jpg">';
?>
<?php } elseif ( is_category('3') ){ ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image3.jpg">';
?>
<?php } elseif ( is_category('4') ){ ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image4.jpg">';
?>
<?php } else { ;?>
<?php } ;?>
or instead you can use the category slug name, instead of the ID value. (I prefer the category ID value, just incase the slug or category name ever changes)
<?php if ( is_category('category1') ) { ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
?>
<?php } elseif ( is_category('category2') ){ ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image2.jpg">';
?>
<?php } elseif ( is_category('category3') ){ ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image3.jpg">';
?>
<?php } elseif ( is_category('category4') ){ ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image4.jpg">';
?>
<?php } else { ;?>
<?php } ;?>
Evan – thanks for the reply. I put this snippet in there (using category ids), but still am getting nothing where image should be:
<?php if ( is_category('12') ) { ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
?>
<?php } elseif ( is_category('13') ){ ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
?>
<?php } elseif ( is_category('16') ){ ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
?>
<?php } elseif ( is_category('15') ){ ;?>
<?
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
?>
<?php } else { ;?>
<?php } ;?>
I think your issue is all of the semi colons and open/closing php statements that shouldn’t be there. Try this:
<?php
if ( is_category('12') ) {
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
} elseif ( is_category('13') ) {
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
} elseif ( is_category('16') ) {
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
} elseif ( is_category('15') ){
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
} else {
// nothing
}
?>
my mistake for missing that before. The above is correct.
The above should be correct now.
Thanks for the help, but no success yet. I tried your last suggestion, and I also tried the following:
<?php
if ( is_category('12') ) {
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
} elseif ( is_category('13') ){
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
} elseif ( is_category('16') ){
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
} elseif ( is_category('15') ){ ;?>
echo '<img src="/images/image1.jpg">';
} else {
// nothing
}
?>
It’s seems like one of the variations should work. Still nothing shows up in the place where image should be. From source code view, there isn’t anything there. Thank you for any suggestions.
Are you putting this inside of the content area in a new page or post? Or are you adding this directly to a .php template file?
I trying in a php widget, and directly in the header.php file.
I don’t think you can write PHP inside of a widget. You need to download a plugin like Exec php to allow php to be excuted inside widgets/posts/pages.
However, it should work in header.php
Are you seeing any 404 errors inside of the developer console?
This is the widget plugin I am using, which should allow me to use php in widget:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/php-code-widget/
I will try the plugin you suggested.
No 404s that I can see in developer console.
Go ahead and test this out, which should work. Just test it using strings instead of image, and then replace the string with your image URL when you know its working.
<?php
if ( is_category('12') ) {
echo 'category 12!';
} else if ( is_category('13') ){
echo 'category 13!';
} else if ( is_category('16') ){
echo 'category 16!';
} else if ( is_category('15') ){
echo 'category 15!';
} else {
echo 'No category!';
}
?>
That should print out Category # inside the header when you click on the appropriate page.
This is tested and working on my localhost installation inside of header.php:
<?php
global $post;
if ( in_category('2', $post->ID) ) {
echo 'category 2!';
} elseif ( is_category('3', $post->ID) ) {
echo 'category 3!';
} elseif ( in_category('4', $post->ID) ) {
echo 'category 4!';
} else {
echo 'NO CATEGORY!';
}
?>
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_category
are you aiming for category archive pages?
what is your result?
can you post link to your site where the result could be investigated?
where are your images located?
have you tried to use absolute image urls?
Code is working great now. Images show up great, without using absolute image urls. Thank you very much.
No problem at all. Sorry it took a bit to get ironed out. There’s really two ways of achieving it. Wasn’t sure how you wanted to go about it.
After setting it up locally I was able to get it resolved fairly quickly.
Happy WordPress-ing!
Your apologizing? Yea right! Thank you again.
