Quick one – if a page is a specific category page?

  • daft question i know but can’t seem to find the answer:

    if i’m outside the loop how do i check for category?

    in english what i want is: if the category is number 5, do this…

    thought maybe it was

    if ($page->cat_ID=”5″) {

    but it isn’t, could anyone help out?

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  • Categories are NOT assigned to Pages.

    Please rephrase your question.

    Thread Starter sootylad

    (@sootylad)

    sorry I mean post but that still doesn’t work…

    when i’m on a category page, i want to check if its the category with id 5 thats all…

    so basically something that outside the loop will do this:

    if (the category is category 5) {

    if ( is_category() ) {
$cat = get_query_var('cat');
if ($cat == 5) {
//do cat 5 thingy
} else {
// not cat 5 thingy
}
}
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