single.php and Categories

  • On my single.php page I want to have the tab of the article’s corresponding category highlighted.

    For example: https://embeddedcomputingsystems.com/

    If the article is from “Boards” (the second tab next to “Home”) then I’d like the Boards tab to be in the active state. I’m am guessing I’d use some sort of php if statement, like if category=3 then class=”active” but am unsure of how to write this. I know nothing about php!

    Can someone please help?

    Thanks,

    Jon

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  • Thread Starter dbunit16

    (@dbunit16)

    I was able to find this code:

    <?php
if (is_category(9)) {
   // looking for category 9 posts
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');
} else {
   // put this on every other category post
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single1.php');
}
?>

    Can I just keep adding if statements? for each category before the else?

    Thread Starter dbunit16

    (@dbunit16)

    In other words… is this valid:

    <?php
if (is_category(1)) {
   // looking for category 1 posts
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single1.php');
if (is_category(9)) {
   // looking for category 2 posts
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');
if (is_category(9)) {
   // looking for category 3 posts
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single3.php');
if (is_category(9)) {
   // looking for category 4 posts
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single4.php');
} else {
   // put this on every other category post
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single.php');
}
?>

    Almost…
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    On my single.php page I want to have the tab of the article’s corresponding category highlighted.

    For posts, use in_category instead of is_category.

    Thread Starter dbunit16

    (@dbunit16)

    Great! I will try this! Where would I place this code?

    Thread Starter dbunit16

    (@dbunit16)

    I have tried the above code

    <?php
if (is_category(11)) {
   // looking for category 11 posts
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single11.php');
elseif (is_category(9)) {
   // looking for category 2 posts
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');
elseif (is_category(9)) {
   // looking for category 3 posts
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single3.php');
elseif (is_category(9)) {
   // looking for category 4 posts
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single4.php');
} else {
   // put this on every other category post
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/singlegeneral.php');
}
?>

    But am getting this error “Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ELSEIF in /home/content/a/z/e/azelasko/html/wp-content/themes/embedded411/single.php on line 5”

    Thread Starter dbunit16

    (@dbunit16)

    brackets weren’t closed! Thank you for your help!

    iridiaz, that in_category was key! Thank you!

    That should be work fine

    <?php
$post = $wp_query->post;
if ( in_category('5') ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');
}elseif ( in_category('3') ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single1.php');
} else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single.php');
}
?>
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