mtwelve

I have had some progress with this by using the custom is_subpage() functions mentioned in this link: http://www.mattvarone.com/wordpress/wordpress-check-page-parent

The problem with those is as follows:

When I try and use it reversed alongside another reversed tag; for instance. I dont want to show the menu for children of 48 on the front page or any page other than those with a parent of 48, and so my WidgetLogic looks like this: !is_subpage(48) || !is_front_page

When I use the above code it hides the menu on children of 48 but not on the front page..?

For added info a variation of the logic in another widget works without fault: is_subpage(48) || is_page(48) || !is_front_page()

It seems to arise when using the reverse of the tag

Thanks as always

Hi,

Thanks for your help; I was starting to loose hope.

The actualy code is at work and I’ve come home, however it looked a bit like this,

$jnews = array('category__in' => array( . $category_id . ',19' '))';

query_posts($jnews);

Like I say if I echo $jnews then the output looks perfect. It didn’t work though when I set the IDs statically so I presume its a syntax issue.

Many Thanks!

Once this is sorted I am going to attach the output to another variable to pass to query_posts.

Can anyone tell me what is/isn’t wrong with this:

$jnews = "array('category__and' => array(" . '$category_id' . ')))';

in preperation for query_posts($jnews)

Ok so another way to exclude the children is:

global $post; return !(in_array(25,get_post_ancestors($post)));

As suggest in the other notes however if I try to add an OR and some logic I get the same error as before:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_BOOLEAN_OR in C:\wamp\www\oxfordhigh\wp-content\plugins\widget-logic\widget_logic.php(161) : eval()'d code on line 1

And this is the logic I tried to use:

global $post; return !(in_array(25,get_post_ancestors($post))); || global $post; return (in_array(236,get_post_ancestors($post)));

Here is the solution from this post: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-page-based-on-category?replies=18

<?php $catname = wp_title('', false); ?>

<?php query_posts("category_name=$catname&showposts=3"); ?>

<?php $posts = get_posts("category_name=$catname&numberposts=3&offset=0");
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>

<div class="dept-news-post">
 <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

The important bit is <?php $catname = wp_title(”, false); ?>. I haven’t finished styling the output.