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figured it out (I searched a bit longer and found the answer). Creating single-customposttypename.php did the job

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

anyone have an idea of how I could get this to work?

thanks for the comment, sadly I have no idea how to put that into code (I can just about code wordpress templates but not php).

at the moment i’m using this for the first column:

<?php global $post; $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5'); foreach($myposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post);?>

I just need to adapt it so it shows even / odd posts.

anyone have any ideas? thanks.

Thanks for the links, I’m trying to find something that won’t allow users to see restricted categories in the edit screen though. Any other ideas?

genius! thank you.

Thanks Simon, yes that makes perfect sense, you’re right, the last post is in category ‘3’ just need to try and figure a way around this

so at the moment there is a news.php (the news landing page with a custom page template) and then separate posts in the news *category*.

The homepage has content from various categories but for some reason the code i’m using in the header…

<li><a href="/news/" title="News" <?php if (is_page_template('news.php')) {?>class="current"<?php } ?><?php if (in_category('3')) {?>class="current"<?php } ?>><span></span>News</a></li>

confuses wordpress and when I’m on the index page it thinks it’s viewing content from the news category so shows the class as current for both the home button and the news button.

It’s quite hard to explain, so I’m not sure if that helped, but take a look at navigation at https://www.wiredbristol.com/index.php and you’ll see what I mean (hopefully)

(basically I don’t want the news button to show as active if it’s the index page)

thanks again.

thanks for the reply, it’s the news button that is causing the problem though, it’s showing as active on the homepage so I somehow need to tell it that if it’s the homepage don’t show the class=”current”

Brilliant, thanks for your help… worked perfectly, now I have to try and figure out how to edit that so it does the same for comment avatars.

Still needing some help here, anyone have any ideas? Thank you.

OK, I’ve had a look around and found that in_category doesn’t pick up sub-categories so you have to list them manually. For anyone else trying to do something similar here’s how you do it:

<?php if ( in_category(2) || in_category (2) || in_category (3) || in_category (4) ) { ?>
Content
<?php } else { ?>
Content
<?php } ?>

Is there anyway to modify this so its if in SUB category of x?

worked perfectly! thanks!