wpnewbie80

thanks. I was kinda leaving that as a last resort though as it is a workaround rather than a solution to the original cause of the problem. It would require the eventual editor of the site (not me) to update the file each time they need to upgrade to a newer version of WordPress.

I really don’t understand what might be the cause though as it doesn’t seem to effect the majority.

sorry to bump, but has anyone got any idea how I can solve this?

I have come up with this..it seems to work but I’m not sure if its luck or judgement! the function came from pointlessjon’s post

code is outside the main loop

$tempQuery = $wp_query;

    $currentId = $post->ID;
	$catToUse = "";

	   function post_child_of_cat($child_post_id, $parent_cat_id){
		$cat_array = wp_get_post_categories($child_post_id);
		   foreach ($cat_array as $category){
			if (cat_is_ancestor_of((int)$parent_cat_id, (int)$category)){
			    global $catToUse;
                            $catToUse = $category;
      			    return true;
			 }
		     }
		     return false;
		}

        if ( ( $isAguide=in_category('16') ) || ( $needsAguide=post_child_of_cat($post->ID, 6) ) ){

		 if($needsAguide == true){
                 //the post is from a subject category and it needs a guidebook
			    $GetTheGuideBook = new WP_Query(array('category__and'=>array(16,$catToUse)));
//we know the guidebook post will be in category 16 and the current post's subject category

				 if($GetTheGuideBook ->have_posts()) : while($GetTheGuideBook ->have_posts()) : $GetTheGuideBook ->the_post();
				   $guideBookPostID = $post->ID;
                   $guideLink ='<a href="'. get_permalink() .'" title="' .the_title("", "", false). '">'. the_title("", "", false) .'</a>';
				   $guideImage = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'guideImage', $single ='true');

				   $guideName = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'guideName', $single ='true');

				   $guidePrice = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'guideAmount', $single ='true');

			     endwhile;

			   endif;
			 }
		}
    $wp_query = $tempQuery;

I fixed it. my widgeted sidebar was over riding it