rjpinney

Peter – could you let me know what fixed your problem? I have it too!

I’m still having this problem I’m afraid – does anyone have any input on what might be causing it?

I’ve since figured this out (CSS class ‘colorbox-123).

Thanks so much, it’s working!

<?php
$category = get_the_category();
if ($category->category_parent != '')
{  }
?>

If I put anything in the area you entered for code, it crashes the page.

I want to then list the child categories as links, if that makes any difference.

Thanks for all your help, appreciated!

I’m afraid I’ve still got the same problem..

Thanks for your response, I’ve put that in but it crashes the page if I try and put code (or anything) into it – I may have implemented it wrong.

This is what I have:

<?php
$category = get_the_category();
if ($category->category_parent !== '')
{ }
?>

(The outstanding question here is now different from the original, so I’ll mark this resolved and start a new thread for the new question).

Very well spotted, that was precisely the problem!

Thanks!

A further update:

This code is now outputting the child category slugs as I want it to:

<?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $childcat) { if (cat_is_ancestor_of(5, $childcat)) { echo $childcat->slug; }} ?>

The only thing I need to do is to separate the values returned with a space!

Any ideas?

An update on this:

I’m now closer to what I want to achieve – this code is outputting the category slug:

<?php $category = get_the_category(); echo $category[0]->slug; ?>

I now need to tweak it so that it only echos the category slug for child categories of parent category 5. I’ve tried using the ‘child_of=5’ parameter but can’t get it to work.

Does anyone have any suggestions for this? I’m still stuck. Thanks!

Thanks wspencer, I’ve tried changing at as you suggest but I’m afraid it just crashes the page – no doubt because I haven’t put it in quite right. This is what I now have, incorporating the code you provided above:

<?php query_posts( array(
     'post_type' => array( 'post', 'report', 'opinion', bookmark' ),
     'cat' => 3,
     'showposts' => 5 )
     ); ?>
		<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="post_type">
		<?php if ( 'post' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>FEATURE<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if ( 'report' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>REPORT<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if ( 'opinion' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>OPINION<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if ( 'bookmark' == get_post_type()  ) : ?>BOOKMARK<?php endif; ?>
		</div>

		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?> "><?php the_title(); ?></a>

		<div class="excerpt">
		<?php echo get_the_excerpt(); ?>
		</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

Solved!

Should anyone else run into this:

Instead of using:

<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘YOURFIELDNAME’, true); ?>

Use this:

<?php the_field(‘YOURFIELDNAME’); ?>

That seems to carry over the formatting.

Scrap that last – this is the code I now have. It pulls the posts but the variable isn’t working. I planned to run this loop twice, once for events before ‘now’ and one for events after ‘now.’

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