If is_category issues

  • Hello,

    Basically I am making a website for a local shop using wordpress and woocommerce. They want a different background to be used on two of the categories, Which should be very straight forward…
    But, for some reason, it’s deciding not to function as it should. I have tried using the woocommerce documentation, but quite frankly it’s worthless (tells me nothing about how to use the parameters) so I attempted to use it just as the wordpress is_category. I have also tried using is_category.

    The problem is, it isn’t registering any of my parameters. All it is doing is the basic is_category() function. I have tried using the name, slug and ID all without success.

    <?php if (is_product_category( 'legal-highs' )) : ?>
 <style type="text/css">
 	#wrapper {background-image:url(https://streetwiseheadshop.co.uk/wp-content/themes/streetwise2/images/background2.jpg) !important;}
</style>
<?php endif; ?>

    This is the code I’m using (obviously change is_product_category to is_category, it makes no difference so far…

    What am I doing wrong?

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  • Something like:

    <?php if (is_category() :
	global $cat; //$cat = WordPress global holds the category->ID
	if ($cat == 4 || $cat == 16 ) :
	?>
		<style type="text/css">
			#wrapper {background-image:url(https://streetwiseheadshop.co.uk/wp-content/themes/streetwise2/images/background2.jpg) !important;}
		</style>
	<?php
	endif;
endif; ?>

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter ParadoxDev

    (@paradoxdev)

    Unfortunately that does absolutely nothing, no changes at all :/

    Where are you adding the code, and you did change the 4 and 16 to match your catergory->ID?

    The code could be in header.php inside the <head> </head> tags, or in a function in functions.php with an action to run it!

    Example:

    function my_background_style() {
	if (is_category() {
		global $cat; //$cat = WordPress global holds the category->ID
		if ($cat == 4 || $cat == 16 ) { ?>
			<style type="text/css">
				#wrapper {background-image:url(https://streetwiseheadshop.co.uk/wp-content/themes/streetwise2/images/background2.jpg) !important;}
			</style>
  <?php
		}
	}
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'my_background_style' );

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter ParadoxDev

    (@paradoxdev)

    Sorry for the very late reply, this wasn’t as high priority as other things so was left for a while.

    I have the code in my <head> tags, just under wp_head(),

    <?php if (is_category()) :
	global $cat;
	if ($cat == 42) :
	?>
		<style type="text/css">
			#wrapper {background-image:url(https://streetwiseheadshop.co.uk/wp-content/themes/streetwise2/images/background2.jpg) !important;}
		</style>
	<?php
	endif;
endif; ?>

    I just ran into a similar problem, solved it using has_term: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-woocommerce-excelling-ecommerce-is_product_category-vs-in_product_category

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