drhodes
Member
Posted 8 months ago #
I'm creating a custom post type called events. I have created a taxonomy for event type with two categories, webinars and live-events. I'm trying to create a loop that will list these posts and apply a class to a span inside each list item if it is in the "webinars" category. I figured I could do this by targeting it's slug. I'm a bit stuck on how to write this, but I feel I must be close. Here's my attempt. Any help would be much appreciated.
<ul class="eventlist">
<?php $args = array( 'post_type' => 'event', 'posts_per_page' => 3 );
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
<li class="event">
<?php if ($tag->slug == 'webinar'){ ?>
<span class="fevdate web">
<?php }
else { ?>
<div class="fevdate">
<?php } ?>
<?php the_title(); ?></span><!--/fevdate-->
<?php endwhile; ?>
Good news is WordPress has you covered with some built in functions: post_class() and get_post_class(). Each post can already have a class of the category name or id. Read through the two Codex articles to get a feel for how it works.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/post_class
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_class
drhodes
Member
Posted 8 months ago #
I messed with this for about an hour and can't seem to figure it out. Care to share an example working off my scenario above?
Turns out I misread your original question. I am sorry. I thought you wanted to add an additional class to the post class.
You'll want to use in_category(). I'll post an example in just a min.
<?php
if ( in_category( 'Webinar' ) )
{?>
<span class="fevdate web"><?php the_title(); ?></span>
<?php}
else
{?>
<div class="fevdate web"><?php the_title(); ?></div>
<?php}
?>
drhodes
Member
Posted 8 months ago #
Thanks again for your help.
I think I've done a poor job of describing what I'm trying to do. The in_category route seems to be on the right track, but I'm not using categories.
It's a custom post type that doesn't use categories. I have a taxonomy of Event Type with options of Webinar or Live-Event. Is there a way to do what you've done but for the taxonomy term of Webinar?
