Title: Category Conditional in Attachment.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Category Conditional in Attachment.php

 *  [2bak860](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2bak860/)
 * (@2bak860)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-conditional-in-attachmentphp/)
 * I’m trying to make a conditional tag in attachment.php, so that, depending which
   category the post is in, the attachment will show different content.
 * Anyone have a solution? Thanks, Ross.

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 *  [Edward Caissie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cais/)
 * (@cais)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-conditional-in-attachmentphp/#post-1305262)
 * These pages from the codex may get you started:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/in_category](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/in_category)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_category](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_category)
 * I’m thinking the in_category() conditional may be what you are looking at with
   something like:
 *     ```
       <?php
         if ( (in_category('my-cat')) ) {
           // special 'my-cat' post attachment display code
         } else {
           // other category post attachment display
         }
       ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [2bak860](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2bak860/)
 * (@2bak860)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-conditional-in-attachmentphp/#post-1305522)
 * Thanks Cais. in_category won’t work because attachments don’t recognise in_category,
   only post>parents.
 *  [Edward Caissie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cais/)
 * (@cais)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-conditional-in-attachmentphp/#post-1305527)
 * [@2bak860](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2bak860/) – After some further
   reading, I see what you mean.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Image_and_File_Attachments#Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Image_and_File_Attachments#Permalinks)
 * Perhaps I misunderstood your original question …
 * Are you trying to change the actual attachment, or just change the look of the
   page the attachment is being displayed on?
 * For example, if attachment X is being displayed, show a blue background; and,
   if attachment Y is being displayed, show a red background. (I’m using background
   color for simplicity sake.) If this is the case, I would suggest implementing
   the [body_class()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/body_class) template
   tag using the CSS classes it generates to re-style the attachment page(s) explicitly.
 * Hope that helps …
 *  Thread Starter [2bak860](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2bak860/)
 * (@2bak860)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-conditional-in-attachmentphp/#post-1305528)
 * Hi Cais,
 * Thanks for your reply! I am trying to change the layout of the attachment.php
   page depending on the category we’re in – it goes a bit further than CSS I’m 
   afraid.
 * Desired in attachment.php :.
 *     ```
       <?php if ( in_category('pears')  ){ ?>
       show pears
       <?php } elseif ( in_category('apples') ) { ?>
        show apples
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 * thanks so much for your help,
 * Ross
 *  [gudlyf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gudlyf/)
 * (@gudlyf)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-conditional-in-attachmentphp/#post-1305572)
 * 2bak860 —
 * It looks like you can grab the post parent and then check its category:
 *     ```
       <?php
       $post = get_post($ID);
   
       if ( is_object($post) ) :
         if ( ('attachment' == $post->post_type) && $post->post_parent && ($post->ID != $post->post_parent) ) :
            setup_postdata($post->post_parent);
            if ( in_category('pears') ) { echo "pears"; }
         endif;
       endif;
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Something like that.
 *  [tgiokdi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tgiokdi/)
 * (@tgiokdi)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-conditional-in-attachmentphp/#post-1305617)
 * I’m trying to do this same thing, but I am having troubles with image attachments
   that were originally in category “1”, but then edited to category “X”, and the
   attachment.php file still showing the “1” template, which is not the behavior
   that I would expect.

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