http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Wed, 22 May 2013 08:32:43 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/conditional-statement-to-show-one-of-two-possible-query_posts#post-25825 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:57:32 +0000 sixfootjames 25825@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi all,</p> <p>I have created a specific template page that needs to show the content of one of two categories.</p> <p>I am not sure if I should be doing this in the functions.php file because I am not sure how to hook the functions.php file up to this specific template page. What I need is a conditional statement, that will check if we are in a particular category. </p> <p>Here's the working code for one category</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class=&quot;entry-content&quot;&gt; &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt; &lt;/h1&gt; &lt;?php query_posts(&#39;cat=5&#38;posts_per_page=4&#39;); if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();?&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;?php the_title();?&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;?php global $more; $more = 0; the_content(); endwhile; endif; // Reset Query wp_reset_query(); ?&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> <p>What I need is something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class=&quot;entry-content&quot;&gt; if (category == &#39;category1&#39;) { &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt; &lt;/h1&gt; &lt;?php query_posts(&#39;cat=5&#38;posts_per_page=4&#39;); if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();?&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;?php the_title();?&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;?php global $more; $more = 0; the_content(); endwhile; endif; // Reset Query wp_reset_query(); ?&gt; } else if (category == &#39;category2&#39;) { &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php the_title(); ?&gt; &lt;/h1&gt; &lt;?php query_posts(&#39;cat=6&#38;posts_per_page=4&#39;); if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();?&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;?php the_title();?&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;?php global $more; $more = 0; the_content(); endwhile; endif; // Reset Query wp_reset_query(); ?&gt; } &lt;/div&gt;</code></pre> <p>Helga, if you are the first to answer, I know we are going through a similar exercise but this one is not related ;) This one is specific to this template problem I am having. :) </p>