Category Base Rename Is Inconsistent (PART 2)

  • Vox

    (@voxclamantis)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    In a previous topic I lamented that a renamed category base did not reflect the change in category archive page headings. @alchymyth replied with a perfect solution….though a solution that, twenty months later, I cannot successfully modify.

    Michael’s first if block was fine, but I’d like to customize further by assigning a unique label to each category archive.

    This code will not work. I have been able to accomplish almost the same end by pattern matching against $title, but going forward it would be better if matched against category. I’ve tried various other work-arounds like iterating the category array into a string. I just can’t seem to figure this out. PHP is not my forte; I’m a Perl guy (yes, I know PHP morphed out of Perl, but I find PHP inordinately more obtuse than Perl). 

    function use_category_base_in_archive_title( $title ) 
   {if ( is_category() && get_option('category_base') ) 
         $title = str_replace( 'Category:', ucfirst( get_option('category_base') ) . ':', $title );
    elseif ( is_category() && preg_match("/English/i", get_the_category()) ) 
         $title = str_replace( 'Category:', 'Language:', $title );
    elseif ( is_category() && preg_match("/Spanish|Español/i", get_the_category()) ) 
         $title = str_replace( 'Category:', 'Idioma:', $title );
    elseif ( is_category() && preg_match("/French|Français/i", get_the_category()) ) 
         $title = str_replace( 'Category:', 'Langue:', $title );
    elseif ( is_category() && preg_match("/Latine?/i", get_the_category()) ) 
         $title = str_replace( 'Category:', 'Lingua:', $title );
    return $title;
   }
add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', 'use_category_base_in_archive_title' );
    • This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Vox.
    • This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by Vox. Reason: added note about successfully matching against $title

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    if are you trying to check the category title for those strings, and because the code is executed only in category archive pages, you could try to work with https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/single_cat_title/ instead of https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_category/ (which is more aimed at single posts)

    Thread Starter Vox

    (@voxclamantis)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hmm, I can’t seem to implement that and achieve the result that my inarticulate inner brain envisions. But branching from your suggestion, I found 

    is_category( array( 9, 'blue-cheese', 'Stinky Cheeses' ) ) 
Returns true when the category of posts being displayed is either term_ID 9, or slug "blue-cheese", or name "Stinky Cheeses".

    on codex.wordpress.org and I’m wondering if that wouldn’t work. Any reason *not* to use “is_category( array())”?

    Thread Starter Vox

    (@voxclamantis)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    And as an amendment to that, what are the material differences between “is_category()” and “in_category()”? (Sorry, i know this to be an elementary query; it’s just that my brain is so preoccupied by other matters that my own internal processing power is diminished).

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