presswolfe

Ahhh nevermind. Figured it out. Just had to put the defined CSS styles at the top of the “archive.php” and applied the class names to the tags.

Thanks

How can I apply a CSS style to the text?

I’m having trouble with the code applying the CSS within the PHP file.

Awesome. It worked. Thank you!

@alexander Agnarson

Hi Alex, no replies from anyone else on this yet. Is there a way that I can show the message “no posts” in a category that hasn’t any posts in it?

I found this fix in another support area. If you add this to your CSS styles, then the messages will disappear if the mouse hovers over them — or if the cursor is in the form field:

.wpcf7-form-control-wrap:hover .wpcf7-not-valid-tip, .wpcf7-form-control:focus + .wpcf7-not-valid-tip { display:none; }

@mrjcgoodwin

This was a bit of a headache, but I figured out that you need to put the category SLUG name within the quotation marks (not the category name). If you want to have a mult-worded category name just put a dash in between the words of the actual slug (in your WordPress category settings) and you can write it without the slugs in the quotation.

So your “Sports and Fitness” slug would have to be “sports-and-fitness” and use this code in your CF7 form:

[checkbox* post_category_name “Gigs” “Sports and Fitness”]

or in a dropdown menu…

[select* post_category_name “Gigs” “Sports and Fitness”]

etc…

Nevermind, it works if you set it as “pending”. I didn’t reload the browser after changing the Contact Form 7 info.

A note to people who want to do this… they should make sure they have downloaded the “CF7 Dynamic Text Extension” plugin.

Put this in the form settings:

[dynamichidden post_status “pending”]

@michael Simpson

Is there a way to make the post appear as “pending” instead of “draft”?

When I set it to “pending” and submit the form info, the post STILL appears as a “draft” for some reason.

Thanks again! Resolved!

Ahhhh… I did some searching and found a plugin called “Custom Sidebars” that solved the problem.

After installing, it is quite easy to use. Basically, the plugin lets you select a PARENT category sidebar that you can substitute with a CHILD category sidebar. The problem I had was that the PARENT sidebar was showing up on ALL of my category main pages (the individual posts were fine though). Now each category page has its own unique sidebar that will allow for different ads as well. Relieved!

Sorry, I guess I should have clarified that I want to display custom sidebars on the main category PAGES — not sidebars for the individual posts within each category. I am already able to display custom sidebars for the posts. It is the actual PARENT PAGE of each category that I am having difficulties with.

Is there a way to do it for each main category page?

Thanks for the help though. I found a way to do it by using two plugins in-tandem with each other: (1) AVH Extended Categories Widgets and (2) Widgetize pages Light

The first plugin/widget allows more control over what categories are displayed and the “Widgetize pages Light” plugin lets you put the categories on an actual WordPress page.

It took some tinkering with Firebug to customize the widget’s CSS but it solved the problem without doing any coding with the php files. Wheww.

Where is the visibility option? I can’t seem to locate it in order to specify the categories I’d like it to appear on.

I actually would prefer to have the red links appear arranged exactly as how they are. All I want to do is include the number of job posts appear in brackets next to the red links.

What you described sounds a bit complicated for my level of “expertise”. Is there a way that I could just add the numbers in brackets beside the red links with some simple steps to follow for how to code it?

@parcodeisuoni

Thanks for getting back to me about it.

I am having difficulties using that code to do what I’m trying to accomplish on the site.

If you have time to look at the site at this URL it may be clearer in context.

Basically, I want to have the number of job posts show in the main column next to where the red links are for each country — similar to how they appear in the left grey sidebar column. The red links point to the posts in each country’s category.

Any advice would be helpful. Thanks.