Title: Issue with archives.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Issue with archives.php

 *  [acheashadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acheashadow/)
 * (@acheashadow)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-archivesphp/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’m having a problem with archives.php in my template folder, I have created 
   a theme for a friend and I’m using archives.php for categories and using this
   code in the H3…
 * `<h3>LATEST <?php echo get_the_category_by_ID($cat); ?> ON CONSOLE OBSESSION</
   h3>`
 * This works fine but when someone clicks on the authors name in the post we get
   this error code:
 * LATEST
    Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted
   to string in /home/console/public_html/wp-content/themes/console-obsession/archive.
   php on line 17
 * We know that it relates to the code I put in above, is there anyway I can do 
   an if statement so if its a cat page it echos the cat name and if its an author
   page it echos the authors name?
 * Many thanks in advance!

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 *  Thread Starter [acheashadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acheashadow/)
 * (@acheashadow)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-archivesphp/#post-1519424)
 * Anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [acheashadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acheashadow/)
 * (@acheashadow)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-archivesphp/#post-1519449)
 * Someone please help!
 *  Thread Starter [acheashadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acheashadow/)
 * (@acheashadow)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-archivesphp/#post-1519450)
 * Someone must know how to fix this!!!!

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 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [acheashadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acheashadow/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-archivesphp/#post-1519450)
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