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1. JonJ
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   This may be easey but I've been looking and can not figure it out.
   I got the below from the codex...

   <?php if (is_category('Category A')) { ?>
   <p>This is the text to describe category A</p>
   <?php } elseif (is_category('Category B')) { ?>
   <p>This is the text to describe category B</p>
   <?php } else { ?>
   <p>This is some generic text to describe all other category pages,
   I could be left blank</p>
   <?php } ?>

   Basically I want to continue to add to that but if I were to add..
   

   <?php if (is_category('Category A')) { ?>
   <p>This is the text to describe category A</p>
   <?php } elseif (is_category('Category B')) { ?>
   <p>This is the text to describe category B</p>
   <em><?php } elseif (is_category('Category C')) { ?>
   <p>This is the text to describe category C</p></em>
   <?php } else { ?>
   <p>This is some generic text to describe all other category pages,
   I could be left blank</p>
   <?php } ?>

   it breaks it.

   I want to use the above but need to add about 6 more categories.
   How can I ad more statements to that code so I don't get errors?

   Any help would be appreciated.

   Jon

2. modesignz
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   instead of opening the <?php and closing ?> and then opening another one and closing for each line, why not have one <?php for all the code:

   <?php
   	if (is_category('Category A'))
   	{
   
   		<p>This is the text to describe category A</p>
   
   	}
   	elseif (is_category('Category B'))
   	{
   		<p>This is the text to describe category B</p>
   		<?php
   	}
   	else
   	{
   		<p>This is some generic text to describe all other category pages,
   		I could be left blank</p>
   
   	}
   
   ?>

   Hope this helped :)

3. t31os
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Nope sorry that's incorrect and will not function...

   With PHP you will need to echo out the HTML content...
   It would be like this without opening and closing PHP...
   

   <?php
   	if (is_category('Category A'))
   	{
   		echo 'This is the text to describe category A
   ';
   	}
   	elseif (is_category('Category B'))
   	{
   		echo 'This is the text to describe category B
   ';
   	}
   	else
   	{
   		echo 'This is some generic text to describe all other category pages,
   		I could be left blank
   ';
   
   	}
   
   ?>

4. modesignz
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   oh yh sorry...i didn't see that one...thanx :)

5. minougris
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Im using the folowing script in my Sidebar to show specific menu depending on the categories :

   <?php
   if (is_category('recipe')){ include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-recipe.php'); }
   else { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-main.php'); }
   ?>

   It works great. My only problem is that I would like to include all the sub-categories of the categories "recipe", so that everything under it (child) will have the same sidebar. Something like : if (is_category_and_child ...

   Otherwise if I cant do that, I would like to be able to include more than one categories in the tag, but I cant find the right syntax. Something like : if (is_category('recipe', 'deserts', 'soup', 'lamb', 'etc...' ))

   Thanks a lot.

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