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formica
(@formica)

15 years, 5 months ago

Hi

In my sidebar I’m attempting to list the posts from the current category. ie.

If in a specified parent category, dynamically get the child category then list it’s posts or if in other parent specified category display something else.

I feel like I’m close but my php isn’t great and I’ve got issues with it displaying differently from single.php to category.php

Please someone point me in the right direction:

Code now in paste bin:

http://wordpress.pastebin.com/tnmVZX0j

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Michael
(@alchymyth)

15 years, 5 months ago
in single.php, get_query_var('cat') is not defined;

to get the categories of a single post, try to use:

get_the_category( $id )

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_category

if you restrict the categories of a single post to one category, you should be able to get this one with some code like this:
```
<?php
if( is_single( ) ) {
$category = get_the_category();
$yourcat = $category[0]->slug;
}
?>
```
Thread Starter formica
(@formica)

15 years, 5 months ago

Hi Alchymyth

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately I seem to be going backwards and getting confused. I couldn’t seem to make it work and so have found other code which at it’s core seems to do a better job but I need to set up a conditional tag to execute the code – or not – according to it’s parent category.

The basic code i got from here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-display-post-titles-from-current-category-and-highlight-active-post

but they never posted the final code to stop duplication of the posts on the category page and my conditional code seems to send it in an infite loop.

Anyway here’s my code if someone could take a look i’d hugely appreciate it:

http://wordpress.pastebin.com/0jM8SDEY

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