Conditional code to show a query if a category has posts WordPress
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Hello,
For a Alert News Ticker, I need to create a conditional code that show this code only if the category has an asigned post. If the category is empty, hide the code (from the <ul> to the </ul>.
<ul id="js-news" class="js-hidden">
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query("showposts=10&cat=19");
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<li class="news-item"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
Thanks!
Answers (3)
Navjot Singh answers:
Try
if (get_category('19')->category_count > 0)
{
<ul id="js-news" class="js-hidden">
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query("showposts=10&cat=19");
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<li class="news-item"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
}
No Mind comments:
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Navjot Singh comments:
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Navjot Singh comments:
Ah its "Vote to award prize" link right under the question. Not Award prize. my bad.
Arnav Joy answers:
I am assuming you are using this code in category.php , so use it with in loop
<?php
$post_id = 1; // your post id
if( get_the_ID() == $post_id ) { ?>
<ul id="js-news" class="js-hidden">
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query("showposts=10&cat=19");
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<li class="news-item"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>
Arnav Joy comments:
otherwise post your full code where you are using this code
Abdelhadi Touil answers:
Hi.
Try this:
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query("posts_per_page=10&cat=19");
if ($my_query->have_posts()){ ?>
<ul id="js-news" class="js-hidden">
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<li class="news-item"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>
Abdelhadi Touil comments:
Notice that I'v changed "showpost" by "posts_per_page" because posts_per_page replaced showposts parameter since wordpress 2.1.
[[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query"]]http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query[[/LINK]]