in_category Working on Part of Page, Not Rest

  • Resolved gbrown88

    (@gbrown88)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    Have a weird situation going on with in_category that I can’t seem to figure out, so any help would be great. Here’s the situation:

    I currently am using in_category in 5 places on my site where depending on the category, different content is displayed in those areas.

    1 of the spots is in the header before the Loop and the other 4 are in the Sidebar and Footer after the Loop.

    The 1st one, when I place is above my header area, it works fine. When I move it below the header (where I ideally want it), it doesn’t work.

    Same code in each area, any thoughts?

    Thanks

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  • Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Are you using it inside the loop? If not you have to pass it the post ID:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/in_category

    // post ID 34
if(in_category('fruit', 34)){ ... }

    Thread Starter gbrown88

    (@gbrown88)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    How can I dynamically pass the post id through?

    I tried adding, $post->ID in the area you place 34 and that didn’t work.

    Thanks

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    On what template file are you using this? The post object is available outside the loop in single.php and page.php:
    in_category('fruit', $post->ID)

    Thread Starter gbrown88

    (@gbrown88)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    I’m using the Genesis Framework.

    I’m running it on is_single only though, in an area designated ‘genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap’.

    When I have it in ‘genesis_before_header’ it works fine. Same code.

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Maybe you need to get the global $post value outside the loop. try this:

    global $post;
if (in_category('fruit', $post->ID)){...}

    Does the theme query the loop in single.php?

    Thread Starter gbrown88

    (@gbrown88)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    I’ll try this. What’s odd is that the other 4 areas, using the same code are working perfectly.

    Thread Starter gbrown88

    (@gbrown88)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Yeah, that didn’t work. This is what I tried:

    if(is_single()) {
		global $post;
		if (in_category('fruit', $post->ID)) { ?>

                         //Do Stuff

<?php } else { ?>

        //Do Stuff

   	<?php }
	}
    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    what template?
    does the template use any custom query?
    if so, is the query reset after the loop?

    Thread Starter gbrown88

    (@gbrown88)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    That’s exactly it! Thanks @alchymyth.

    I have a couple custom quereis in a drop down of the Navigation bar.

    Thanks

    Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    I’m sorry but I’m not that familiar with the Genesis Framework. did you ask at their forums?

    Try echoing the post ID (for troubleshooting):

    global $post;
echo 'post ID = ' .  $post->ID;

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