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1. Tuukka Virtaperko
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm trying to list all articles of current category in the sidebar of single.php. Also the currently viewed article is higlighted in the list. The problem is that this code lists -all- articles instead of the articles that are in the same category as the article that is currently shown.

   <ul>
   <?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { ?>
   
   <?php $catVal = $category->cat_ID; }
      $IDOutsideLoop = $post->ID;
      global $post;
      $myposts = get_posts('category=.$catVal&showposts=999&order=ASC');
      foreach ($myposts as $post) { ?>
        <li<?php if($IDOutsideLoop == $post->ID) { echo " class=\"current\""; } ?>>
        <a>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
   <?php }; ?>
   </ul>

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This tag may be used outside The Loop by passing a post id as the parameter.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_category

   try:
   <?php foreach((get_the_category($post->ID)) as $category) { ?>

3. Tuukka Virtaperko
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you, alchymyth. I replaced <?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { ?> with that code. The code still works, but the behaviour of the menu did not change in any way.

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   i missed this one as well:
   if you are using single quotes with the parameters, you need to use a different way to include variables;

   instead:
   

   $myposts = get_posts('category=.$catVal&showposts=999&order=ASC');

   try:
   

   $myposts = get_posts('category='.$catVal.'&numberposts=999&order=ASC');

5. Tuukka Virtaperko
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you! That did the trick. I did suspect that that line is at fault, but had no idea what to do with it. :)

6. bozo83
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   The code above is slightly wrong. Here's a cleaner version of it:

   <ul>
   <?php foreach((get_the_category($post->ID)) as $category) { ?>
   
   <?php $catVal = $category->cat_ID; }
      $IDOutsideLoop = $post->ID;
      global $post;
   $myposts = get_posts('category='.$catVal.'&numberposts=999&order=ASC');
      foreach ($myposts as $post) { ?>
        <li<?php if($IDOutsideLoop == $post->ID) { echo " class=\"current\""; } ?>>
        <a href="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
   <?php }; ?>
   </ul>

   Does anyone have any idea how I can make this link list look the same as the normal sidebar menu?! The one above is unformatted, so it looks different to the menu below it! Any one?! Cheers

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