Title: PhP question with categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# PhP question with categories

 *  [lifeundersun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifeundersun/)
 * (@lifeundersun)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-question-with-categories/)
 * I’m using a mimbo2.1 theme layout ([http://www.darrenhoyt.com/demo/mimbo2/](http://www.darrenhoyt.com/demo/mimbo2/))
   and there is a section of it called “rightcolumn” which has little blurbs pop
   up (it is on the lower right hand side of the screen, titles “Gadgets” “Music”
   and “Style.”)
 * The PhP code that makes these pop up (shown below), puts my categories into an
   array and lists the most recent posts in each of these categories, having them
   show up one by one with a possible image (put on through the Custom Fields sections).
   What I would like to do is have each of these little blurbs show up linking to
   a category template page, for example, as the first category is 23, I want it
   to just link to category 23 and the dynamic content I have loaded onto category-
   23.php, with a static description and an image that doesen’t change unless I 
   manually change it. While I like the dynamic PhP content…I want that to be on
   the category-x.php pages that each of those blurbs would eventually link to.
 * What I would very much like to know is, short of removing the code from that 
   section and manually doing the html to just link to these categories, what would
   be the best way to modify the php code below to have each blurb link to a category
   page instead of the most recent post written?
 * I really appreciate the help!!!!!
 * Thank you!
 * >  <div id=”rightcol”>
   >  <?php
   >  // this is where you enter the IDs of which categories you want to 
   > display $display_categories = array(23,24,21,19,20); foreach ($display_categories
   > as $category) { ?> <div class=”clearfloat”> <?php query_posts(“showposts=1&
   > cat=$category”); $wp_query->is_category = false; $wp_query->is_archive = false;
   > $wp_query->is_home = true; ?> <h3>“><?php // this is where the name of each
   > category gets printed single_cat_title(); ?></h3> <?php while (have_posts()):
   > the_post(); ?> <?php // this grabs the image filename $values = get_post_custom_values(“
   > Image”); // this checks to see if an image file exists if (isset($values[0])){?
   > > ” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><img src
   > =”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/images/<?php $values = get_post_custom_values(“
   > Image”); echo $values[0]; ?>” alt=”” /> <?php } ?> ” rel=”bookmark” class=”
   > title”><?php // this is where title of the article gets printed the_title();?
   > >»
   >  <?php endwhile; ?>
   >  </div>

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-question-with-categories/)
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