Kevin Kwok

WOW i did not know you could do that thank you so much I will fool around with your idea and see if i cant come up with something thank you =)

open to solutions or alternatives im pretty stumped.

thanks michael! thats definitely doing something however it looks like its just listing all the categories i have not specific ones the author has posts in. but i will keep working at it thank you!

ampersandbox.net/?author=2

still wasnt able to achieve this not much of a php coder =\

@michaelh
sorry about the duplicate i couldnt find the older one, thank you for closing it.

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Hello!
my website: ampersandbox.net/?author=2

Basically on every author’s page I would like to display a list on the right side of categories the current author has contributed to (has written a post in)

I’m not sure how to go about this but I started trying to write some code I came up with this code but for some reason it only displays one category which happens to be category 2. (check column on right labeled CATEGORIES)

<?php
//Gets category and author info
  global $wp_query;
$cats = get_the_category();
  $postAuthor = $wp_query->post->post_author;
$tempQuery = $wp_query;
// related category posts
  $catlist = "";
  forEach( $cats as $c ) {
  if( $catlist != "" ) { $catlist .= ","; }
  $catlist .= $c->name;
  $catlist .= $c->description;
  }
  $newQuery = "posts_per_page=5&cat=" . $catlist;
  query_posts( $newQuery );
$categoryPosts = "";
  $count = 0;
  ?>
<?php echo $catname .' '. $catlist; ?>

i still cant seem to come up with a way to make this work=\

ha! just got it to work… thanks for um
telling me i couldnt? haha heres the code

if(isset($_GET['pg']))
	{
		if($_GET['pg'] == "newest")	// newest listing
		{
			$postslist = get_posts('numberposts=1');
			foreach ($postslist as $post){
			setup_postdata($post);
				echo thematic_indexloop();
			}
		}
		elseif($_GET['pg'] == "featured")	// featured listing
		{
			printr(featuredpostsList());
		}
		elseif($_GET['pg'] == "random")	// random listing
		{
			$postslist = get_posts('orderby=rand&numberposts=0');
			foreach ($postslist as $post){
			setup_postdata($post);
           		echo '<div id="post-';
				echo the_ID(). '" style="width:670px";>';
				echo '<div class="entry-content">';
				echo childtheme_post_header(). '<a href="';
				echo  the_permalink(). '"rel="bookmark">';
				echo '<span class="slide-title" style=" font-family:Courier New; font-size:11px;">';
				echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'designed-by', $single = true). '<div style="width:145px; position:inherit; top:0px; " align="right">';
				echo the_title(). '</div></span><img class="full-image" src="';
				echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'full-image', $single = true);
				echo '" width="150" height="113"></a></div></div>';
				}
		}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
		elseif($_GET['pg'] == "about")	// about page
		{
		//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
		echo '<div style="float: right; position:absolute; padding-left:690px; padding-right:10px; font-family:Courier New; font-size:11px; width:180px;">
			<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></div>';

		echo "
			About ampersandbox:
			<BR /><BR />
			Ampersandbox is a project made for graphic designers to be creative without the <BR />
			restraints of clients and classrooms, but within the parameters of an assignment.<BR />
			Consider this your playground. A place to design and have fun doing it.<BR />
			<BR />
			Rules for play:<BR />
			<BR />
			1. New assignments will be posted every week.<BR />
			2. All work must be submitted as .jpg or .gif format, 72 pixels, 640 x 480.<BR />
			3. Your first four assignments are required, and must be submitted within a week of<BR />
			receiving your invitation.<BR />
			4. Once you have completed your four required assignments, you are welcome to<BR />
			contribute to any past or future assignments, and at your own leisure.<BR />
			<BR /><BR /><BR />
			Ampersandbox was created by Marian Chiao as an independent-study project, instructed<BR />
			by Simon Johnston, at Art Center College of Design, in the Fall of 2009. ";

		echo  '"Assignments"';
		echo "<BR />
			inspired by the community art project Learning to Love You More by artists<BR />
			Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Website built by Kevin Kwok.
			<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />
			";
		echo '
			<div style="position:absolute;margin-left:-10px;height: 1px; width: 660px; background-color: #000000; margin-top:-5px; margin-bottom: 15px;"">
			</div><BR /><BR />';

		////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
		}

	}
	else
	{
		// default index - show categories with thumbnails for each
		// Modifications by Edward Wong
			// The following code obtains the variable "sortby" via the "get method" in PHP.
			// notice the index.php?sortby=ASC or DESC

			// This if statement checks if the variable is set or not
			// if it's not set, it'll give it the default value of ASC
			if(!isset($sortby))
			{
				$sortby = 'DESC';
			}	

			$cat_args = array(
								'orderby' => 'ID',
								'order' => $_GET[sortby]	// New Code
							  );
			$categories = get_categories($cat_args);
			foreach($categories as $category)
			{
				echo '<div>';
				echo '<div style="float: right; position:absolute; padding-left:690px; padding-right:10px; font-family:Courier New; font-size:11px; width:180px;">
				<a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "" )) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name. ' '.$category->description.'</a></div>';
				$args = array(
								'orderby' => 'ID',
								'order' => 'DESC',
								'showposts' => -1,
								'category' => $category->term_id,
								'caller_get_posts' => 1
							  );
				$posts = get_posts($args);
				echo '<div style="float: left; width: 660px;">';
				foreach($posts as $post)
				{
					setup_postdata($post);
					childtheme_post_header();
					echo "<a href=\"".$post->guid."\" rel=\"bookmark\">";
					echo '<div style="float: left; width: 150px; margin-right: 15px;">';

					if(get_post_meta($post->ID, 'full-image', $single = true))
						echo '<img class="full-image" src="'.get_post_meta($post->ID, 'full-image', $single = true).'" width="150" height="113" /><BR />';
					else
						echo '<img class="full-image" src="'.bloginfo('url').'" width="150" height="113" /><BR />';
						echo '<div style="height:50px;">
								<div style="float: left; margin-top:6px;">'.get_post_meta($post->ID, 'designed-by', $single = true).'</div>
								<div style="float: right; margin-top:6px;">'.$post->post_title.'</div>
								<div style="clear: both;"></div>
							  </div>';
					echo '</div>';
					echo '</a>';
				}
				echo '</div>';
				echo '<div style="clear: both;"></div>';
				echo '</div>';
				echo '
				<div style="position:absolute;margin-left:-10px;height: 1px; width: 660px; background-color: #000000; margin-top:-5px; margin-bottom: 15px;""></div>
				<div style="position:absolute;margin-left:680px;height: 1px; width: 200px; background-color: #000000; margin-top:-5px; margin-bottom: 15px;"></div>
				<br />';
			}
	}

?>
        </div>

hope this helps someone

not entirely true. when i added this code before

elseif($_GET['sortall'] == "random")	// random listing
		{
			echo "random";
		}

when random was clicked it only displayed “random”
and no posts. so i think its totally possible but thank you for your input.

I did it this way because the about page is different than other pages i will have in the future, it has different forms, etc

this part is key

if($_GET[‘pg’] == “about”)

meaning when ?pg=about is called anything under that if statement will display the text below

again, it was listed above but here it is now. this is how i added the code this is all the about page in this code i put on the index.php

if(isset($_GET['pg']))
	{
		if($_GET['pg'] == "about")
		{
		//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
		echo "
			About ampersandbox:
			<BR /><BR />
			Ampersandbox is a project made for graphic designers to be creative without the <BR />
			restraints of clients and classrooms, but within the parameters of an assignment.<BR />
			Consider this your playground. A place to design and have fun doing it.<BR />
			<BR />
			Rules for play:<BR />
			<BR />
			1. New assignments will be posted every week.<BR />
			2. All work must be submitted as .jpg or .gif format, 72 pixels, 640 x 480.<BR />
			3. Your first four assignments are required, and must be submitted within a week of<BR />
			receiving your invitation.<BR />
			4. Once you have completed your four required assignments, you are welcome to<BR />
			contribute to any past or future assignments, and at your own leisure.<BR />
			<BR />
			<BR />
			<BR />
			Ampersandbox was created by Marian Chiao as an independent-study project, instructed<BR />
			by Simon Johnston, at Art Center College of Design, in the Fall of 2009. ";

		echo  '"Assignments"';
		echo "<BR />
			inspired by the community art project Learning to Love You More by artists<BR />
			Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Website built by Kevin Kwok.
			<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />
			";

		echo '<div style="float: right; position:absolute; padding-left:690px; padding-right:10px; font-family:Courier New; font-size:16px; width:180px;">
			<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></div>';

		////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
		}
		}

the about page code is from the code listed above

still cant figure out what i am doing wrong, please help if you can. thank you in advance.

i was using a child theme i just reloaded a back up I had and it fixed it. thanks anyways!

i tried putting that at the very first line but then i get an error message about line one once i put it in there… =\