is child of specific category

  • What I am trying to do – 

    <?php if (is_category('categoryname') || in_category('1') || is_category('child_of=1')) ?>

~ do this ~

else

~ do something else ~

    what I am stuck at is finding out whether the current category is the child/grandchild of a particular category.

    Any pointers?

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  • I’ve been looking for the same functionality. However, since I didn’t found exactly what I was looking for, here is a custom built function:

    /**
 * @param  integer  parent category ID
 * @param  integer  child category ID
 * @return  boolean
 */
function is_child_of_category($category_id, $child_category_id = NULL)
{
	// Load all children of the category
	$children = get_categories('child_of='.$category_id.'&hide_empty=0');

	// Initialize an array for all child IDs
	$children_ids = array();

	// Fill the array just with category IDs
	foreach ($children as $child)
	{
		$children_ids[] = $child->cat_ID;
	}

	// Check whether the given child ID, or the current category, exists within the category
	return ($child_category_id !== NULL)
		? in_array($child_category_id, $children_ids)
		: is_category($children_ids);
}

    Hmm, this may be even better: cat_is_ancestor_of().

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