Title: Adding custom code
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Adding custom code

 *  [gabrieldilaurentis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabrieldilaurentis/)
 * (@gabrieldilaurentis)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-custom-code-2/)
 * Hi, i need your help with inserting your code into another one through a function/
   filter
 * this is the code so far, it displays fine but it cannot retrieve the color set
   in category options
 *     ```
       // Category option checked
               if ($instance['stats_tag']['category']) {
       						$rl_category_color = rl_color($category->cat_ID);
                   $post_cat = get_the_category($popular->id);
                   $post_cat = (isset($post_cat[0]))
   
       							? '<a class="reddish" href="'.get_category_link($post_cat[0]->term_id).'"style="background-color:'.$rl_category_color.';">'.$post_cat[0]->cat_name.'</a>'
                     : '';
   
                   if ($post_cat != '') {
                       $stats[] = '<span class="wpp-category">' . sprintf(__('under %s', 'wordpress-popular-posts'), $post_cat) . '</span>';
                   }
   
               }
       ```
   
 * Obviously it missing something or perhaps has some incorrect code, would you 
   help figure it out?
 * My web page that I’m working on is [http://www.creativitynest.com/home](http://www.creativitynest.com/home)
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