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1. jtlowe22
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am experiencing an issue with two categories:

   Name: 3-d
   slug: 3-d
   id: 42

   Name: Illustration-folio
   slug: illustration-folio
   id: 3

   When I am on a category archive page and '3-d' is the category, 'is_category(42)' and 'is_category(3)' evaluate to true.

   It would be nice to have separate functions for the type of category information being entered. For example, a function that only takes the category id. Or be able to accept arguments.

   If my issue is a result of me doing something incorrectly, please let me know.

   Thanks,
   Jordan

2. jtlowe22
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   function is_category ($category = '')
    {
        ...
         if ( in_array( $cat_obj->term_id, $category ) )
             return true;
         elseif ( in_array( $cat_obj->name, $category ) )
             return true;
         elseif ( in_array( $cat_obj->slug, $category ) )
             return true;
         ...
     }

   What I believe is happening is that when cat_id '3' is not found in '42' it looks for '3' in the current category name. Since it only looks for 3 anywhere in the $category variable, it finds 3 in 3-d evaluates this to true.

   I will look into this. Does anyone have suggestions?

   Thanks,
   Jordan

3. jtlowe22
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This is also an inconvenience when you use is_category(cat_name) for a category name that shares a string with a similar category name. For example.

   using is_category('category') evaluates to true when on the archive page having 'category12' as its name.

4. jtlowe22
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   can check for both:

   if(is_category($cat_name) && is_category($cat_id)){
       ...
   }

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