dredub38

Yes! It works wonderfully.

Thank you Otto (and you as well boober).

Just in case anybody else ever has a similar need, I’ll post the final bit of code. Works great to exclude 1 or more categories when showing the latest headlines from related categories in the sidebar.

<?php
// this is where 10 headlines from the current category get printed
global $post;
$categories = get_the_category();
foreach ($categories as $category) :
if ($category->term_id == 3) continue; // replace 3 with the cat id to excluded
if ($category->term_id == 4) continue; // replace 4 with the cat id to excluded
?>
<li><h2>More from this category</h2>
<ul class="bullets">
<?php
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&category='. $category->term_id);
foreach($posts as $post) :
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

<?php endforeach; ?>

<li><strong><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($category->term_id);?>" title="View all posts filed under <?php echo $category->name; ?>">Archive for '<?php echo $category->name; ?>' &raquo;</a></strong></li>
</ul>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Well it was worth a shot. 🙂

Perhaps “billy” or “steve”…

I think I’m close. Here is the code I’m trying in single.php

<?php
if (is_category('13'))
{
echo 'yes ';
} else {
echo 'no ';
}
echo 'either way';
?>

That looks like it should work, but I always get the “no”. Am I doing something that is obviously wrong?