[ryan bParticipant]

Hi

I’m trying to make the recent posts section on the home page display the category (along with the title and date that it currently shows).

I’m working in the short codes.php atm and my current code for the recent posts section is:

function x_shortcode_recent_posts( $atts ) {
extract( shortcode_atts( array(
‘id’ => ”,
‘class’ => ”,
‘style’ => ”,
‘type’ => ”,
‘count’ => ”,
‘category’ => ”,
‘offset’ => ”,
‘orientation’ => ”,
‘no_image’ => ”,
‘fade’ => ”
), $atts ) );

$id = ( $id != ” ) ? ‘id=”‘ . esc_attr( $id ) . ‘”‘ : ”;
$class = ( $class != ” ) ? ‘x-recent-posts cf ‘ . esc_attr( $class ) : ‘x-recent-posts cf’;
$style = ( $style != ” ) ? ‘style=”‘ . $style . ‘”‘ : ”;
$type = ( $type == ‘portfolio’ ) ? ‘x-portfolio’ : ‘post’;
$count = ( $count != ” ) ? $count : 3;
$category = ( $category != ” ) ? $category : ”;
$category_type = ( $type == ‘post’ ) ? ‘category_name’ : ‘portfolio-category’;
$offset = ( $offset != ” ) ? $offset : 0;
$orientation = ( $orientation != ” ) ? ‘ ‘ . $orientation : ‘ horizontal’;
$no_image = ( $no_image == ‘true’ ) ? $no_image : ”;
$fade = ( $fade == ‘true’ ) ? $fade : ‘false’;

$output = “<div {$id} class=\”{$class}{$orientation}\” {$style} data-fade=\”{$fade}\”>”;

$q = new WP_Query( array(
‘orderby’ => ‘date’,
‘post_type’ => “{$type}”,
‘posts_per_page’ => “{$count}”,
‘offset’ => “{$offset}”,
“{$category_type}” => “{$category}”
) );

if ( $q->have_posts() ) : while ( $q->have_posts() ) : $q->the_post();

if ( $no_image == ‘true’ ) {
$image_output = ”;
$image_output_class = ‘no-image’;
} else {
$image_output = ‘<div class=”x-recent-posts-img”>’ . get_the_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID(), ‘entry-‘ . x_get_option( ‘x_stack’, ‘integrity’ ) . ‘-cropped’, NULL ) . ‘</div>’;
$image_output_class = ‘with-image’;
}

$output .= ‘‘
. ‘<article id=”post-‘ . get_the_ID() . ‘” class=”‘ . implode( ‘ ‘, get_post_class() ) . ‘”>’
. ‘<div class=”entry-wrap”>’
. $image_output
. ‘<div class=”x-recent-posts-content”>’
. ‘<h3 class=”h-recent-posts”>’ . get_the_title() . ‘</h3>’
. ‘<span class=”x-recent-posts-date”>’ . get_the_date() . ‘</span>’
. ‘<span class=”x-recent-posts-cat”>’ . get_the_category( $category ) . ‘</span>’

. ‘</div>’
. ‘</div>’
. ‘</article>’
. ‘‘;

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As you can see I added the

. ‘<span class=”x-recent-posts-cat”>’ . get_the_category( $category ) . ‘</span>’

at the bottom of the code but it is only returning the word “array” instead of the actual categories, can you help?

cheers
ryan

[RadModerator]

Hi there,

Thanks for posting in.

You can check this http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_category

You can just copy the code from that link, add this code

$categories = get_the_category();
$separator = ' ';
$output_cats = '';
if($categories){
	foreach($categories as $category) {
		$output_cats .= '<a href="'.get_category_link( $category->term_id ).'" title="' . esc_attr( sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) ) . '">'.$category->cat_name.'</a>'.$separator;
	}
}

right after the line if ( $q->have_posts() ) : while ( $q->have_posts() ) : $q->the_post();

Then change the line . '<span class="x-recent-posts-cat">' . get_the_category( $category ) . '</span>' into

. '<span class="x-recent-posts-cat">' . trim($output_cats, $separator) . '</span>'

Hope this help.

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