Display default text depending on category

[jmegordon]

Hi,

I was looking to display a default paragraph of text after the content each event, dependent on the category it is displayed in.

I’ve tried adding the following code to my single-event.php file, but it only seems to display the ‘else’ text.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

[Nico]

Hi Gerry,

Thanks for reaching out to us! Hopefully I can help you out on this 🙂

Can you try changing is_category to has_category? The first on checks is the page is a category archive -which is not- while the later checks if post has the category you are passing to the function.

Please try that out and let me know,
Best,
Nico

[Courtney]

Hi!

I also am trying to do something that is only available if you’re on a category page — so I wanted to do an is_category() call and then do something. However, it’s not working. Any ideas why?

[Courtney]

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[Nico]

Hey Coutney,

Thanks for opening a new thread 🙂

Maybe I get to help you out there,
Best,
Nico

[jmegordon]

Hi Nico,

Still no luck unfortunately –

<?php
if (has_category(‘1284’))
{
echo ‘This is a 1* rated tournament’;
}
elseif (has_category(‘1285’))
{
echo ‘This is a 2* rated tournament’;
}
else
{
echo ”;
}
?>

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

[jmegordon]

Hi Nico,

Managed to find the solution – I needed to add ‘tribe_events_cat’. I’ve pasted the working version below for future reference

<?php
if( has_term( ‘1284’, ‘tribe_events_cat’ ) ) {
echo ‘This is a 1* rated tournament’;
}
elseif( has_term( ‘1283’, ‘tribe_events_cat’ ) ) {
echo ‘This is a 2* rated tournament’;
}
?>

Many thanks

[Nico]

Hey Gerry,

Thanks for following up! Reviewing our previous conversation I realize that has_category won’t work as it will only check for default post categories and not custom taxonomies. Sorry, my bad 🙁

Just tried this code inside the loop in single-events.php template and it’s working on my end:

<?php if ( has_term('cat-slug','tribe_events_cat') ) : ?>
<?php //if ( has_term(152,'tribe_events_cat') ) : ?>
This is a cat
<?php else: ?>
This is not a cat
<?php endif; ?>


Note that has_term accepts taxonomy slug (string, goes between quotes) or taxonomy ID (int, goes without quotes).

Please let me know if you can make it work this time,
Best,
Nico

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