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Thanks for getting back to me.

Unfortunately the site is in ‘coming soon’ mode so I can’t share a link. I was able to sort it out with a bit of extra CSS and some !important tags.

-Karl

I ended up working it out. I used this piece of code here:

<?php
	//Get campaign category name and slug
        $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'download_category' );
            if ( $terms && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) :
                $categories = array();
                $slugs = array();
                foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
                  $categories[] = $term->name;
                  $slugs[] =  $term->slug;
                }
                $category = join( " / ", $categories );
                $slug = join( " / ", $slugs );
            endif;
?>

I echoed the above like this:

<a href="/about/<? echo $slug ?>">About</a>
<a href="/campaigns/category/<? echo $slug ?>">More from <? echo $category ?></a>

NOTE: This will only work when the post is assigned to one category.

Thanks vtxyzzy.. The problem is that it’s a custom post type, so all the get_category commands don’t work. Apparently they only work with the regular blog posts.

The get_term commands are what I think I’m supposed to be using, but I still can’t get it to spit out a ‘slug’

Okay.. that problem is solved.. I needed to use download_category instead of category because it was a custom post type.

Right now the code looks like this:

<?php
	$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'download_category' );

	if ( $terms && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ) : 

	$category_links = array();

	foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
		$category_links[] = $term->name;
	}

	$category = join( ", ", $category_links );

 endif; ?>

Then for displaying what I want to happen, I have an if statement.

<?php if (has_term( 'Category Name', 'download_category' ) ) :
		echo ( '<img src="/image/path/' . $category . '.png" /> ...Insert extra text and links under image specific to each category...' );

		elseif (has_term( 'Category Name', 'download_category' ) ) :
		echo ( '<img src="/image/path/' . $category . '.png" />' );

And it just continues for each category. I am hoping there is a simpler way…

The way I am hoping it can work is this:

1. Look up category and define.
2. The picture and text will read the same for each category – just with different sources and links – each of which could be set to use the $category as part of the link, as in the image path above. Example:

<a href="https://example.com/about/' . $category . '/">About Category Name</a>

The problem with this is that most category names have a space and use capital letters — Not url friendly… I want to know if there is a way to use the category slug instead.

Thanks for any help!