danalydesign

Thank you, sir. Now if I want to trim the meta down to only 160 characters from this code what would I do?
echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt($post->ID));

a thought: would this have anything to do with the fact that I’m pulling from a sub category?

is that ‘list module’ directly coded into single.php or done with a function or widget?

This is a chunk of code in my custom taxonomy single page: single-taxonomy.php

I found this back 3 years ago on here:

<?php
$yourcat = 373; // Stick the ID here and it'll be placed in the relevant places below.

if( in_category( $yourcat ) ) :
	$my_query = new WP_Query(array(
		'showposts' => 3,
		'orderby' => 'rand',
		'cat' => $yourcat,
		'post__not_in' => array($post->ID)
	)); unset($yourcat);
	while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
	?>
		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo p75GetThumbnail($post->ID, 100, 100); ?>"></a>
	<?php
	endwhile;
endif;
?>

how could i incorporate this into my code:

<ul class="icons">
					  <?php $post_categories = wp_get_post_categories( $post->ID ); ?>
                      <?php $query = array ( 'post_type' => 'articles', 'articletype' => 'news', 'category__in' => $post_categories, 'posts_per_page' => 4 ); ?>
                      <?php $queryObject = new WP_Query($query); ?>
                      <?php if ($queryObject->have_posts()) : while ($queryObject->have_posts()) : $queryObject->the_post(); ?>
                      <li class="icon-file"><a href="/articles/<?php echo basename(get_permalink()); ?>/"><?php if (strlen($post->post_title) > 33) { echo substr(the_title($before = '', $after = '', FALSE), 0, 33) . '...'; } else { the_title();} ?>
                        </a></li>
                      <?php endwhile; else: ?>
                      <li>No research articles found.</li>
                      <?php endif; ?>
                      <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
                    </ul>

Thank you for your attention, James. Appreciated.

it displays the image and widget whether there is a featured image or not. I want to hide this entire block of code IF there is no featured image.

This block of code basically displays an image and a widget. If there is no featured thumbnail, we want to hide this vblock of code so that the content (text) from the post moves up directly under the title.