Title: if Statement check validity, please Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # if Statement check validity, please * [katgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katgirl/) * (@katgirl) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-statement-check-validity-please/) * Could someone PLEASE check and confirm if I’m doing this if statement right? I seem to pull up an error, as in _“unexpected ‘,’ or ‘;’_ or something to that effect. * ` [div]carry on with template instructions[/div] * thanks heaps Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [designde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designde/) * (@designde) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-statement-check-validity-please/#post-439006) * It looks like you are missing the final closing bracket see below: * ` * I doubt you need the over-arching if is_page statement though, so you could just remove it: * ` * Thread Starter [katgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katgirl/) * (@katgirl) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-statement-check-validity-please/#post-439008) * edit: Sorry, designde – I was writing while you were too. I will implement your changes and report back. Maybe it will fix my footer 🙂 thanks heaps. * Okay – update. * I got the if statement to work (I damn near screamed my lungs out, I was so chuffed!) * I inserted `` directly after the closing ?> and shifted The Loop to sit after that. * Now, the only problem I seem to have is that my footer is suddeny misaligned – instead of expanding 100% (fluid design) its now only expanding to fit the content section. * My theme is a 3 col liquid design. * Does anyone know what ? or > or * that I’v missed? * Thread Starter [katgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katgirl/) * (@katgirl) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-statement-check-validity-please/#post-439014) * No go with the footer problem. * [@designde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designde/), I removed the “over- arching” if statement and reduced the } by one and it renders beautifully! * Thank you so much. I’m no php programmer; it took me the better part of four hours to come up with that if statement. * Just to clarify – it holds 11 if statements in that one code. 🙂 * But my footer is shonkers. * Thread Starter [katgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katgirl/) * (@katgirl) * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-statement-check-validity-please/#post-439028) * Okay I fixed my footer problem. Just shifted the endif’s to sit outside my closing content div. * == * For those who don’t really understand php and if statements, much like myself, this is what I did to generate a breadcrumb trail in my Pages and sub-pages. It took me the better part of four hours to figure it out. While some may snigger and smirk, because it took me so long, I feel rather proud of myself for accomplishing what was, to me, extremely difficult. I know Zip about php, other than what I’ve learned here @ WordPress by using the template tags and studying templates and themes. * So in essence, four hours was nothing, right? Anyway, this is what I did. * I created one Page = Reviews I created sub page= Romance I created 11 sub-sub pages = various sub-genres * Reviews -Romance –anthologies –contemporary –etc… * I wanted a breakcrumb trail that would pick up the “category” name of my sub- sub pages, as well as the title of my Page. * Because I don’t know that much about php or if or is satements… I hand coded the first part of my breadcrumb trail into my template to cover the inital bc link trail: * Home Reviews (main Page category) Romance (first sub-category) * Then I created a If Statement to find the category name of the first Sub-Sub- Page = Anthologies. I duplicated that if statement to also find, if applicable, the category name of any other Sub-Sub-Page category of Reviews/Romance (main parent/s) when viewing a page post. * I inserted the `` tag at the end, so bascially my breadcrumb trail looks like this: * Home || Reviews || Romance || Anthologies || Dark Warrior (title of page/post) * The good thing about this, and the if statement, is that I made a Review template( main Page cat) and left it blank at this point (this will eventually display current month reviews as link list). I also created Romance Template (first Sub Page Cat, which is also presently blank but will also eventually display top 10 links for each sub-genres as teasers) and finally, I made one generic template Sub-Genre for ALL sub-sub page posts. * And Voila. * One fully functional working “Category” breadcrumb trail. If anyone has a better way of doing this, I will be greatly interested. * K * Thread Starter [katgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katgirl/) * (@katgirl) * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-statement-check-validity-please/#post-439148) * Just advising… * I’ve somehow ruined this – don’t know how, & I especially don’t know what, exactly, I ruined, but the **if statement** no longer displays the _name_ of my Page. * After fiddling with it for too many hours, I’m going to change strategies. * If someone has any advice as to how to effectively use the If statement inside a Page Template like such: * if (is_page('page-1')) { echo "[hyperlink/page-1]LINK[/a]"; elseif (is_page(' page-2')) { echo "[hyperlink/page-2]LINK[/a]"; } ?> * Page categories: Page 1 -Page 2 * I will be forever in your debt. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘if Statement check validity, please’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [katgirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katgirl/) * Last activity: [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-statement-check-validity-please/#post-439148) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics