There seem to be problem with %category-linked% or %category%. It don't display the first category a post belongs to as it should for me.

I would like to display 1 category in the Byline and I need it to be the first category assigned to the post or alternatively exclude a specific category to be shown in the byline.

I use a 'Featured' Category that I assign to posts that I want to feature in Dynamic Content Gallery but I don't want the featured category to be displayed in the Byline. It should display the other Category (News, Post etc) that a post belongs to instead.

I have tried with this code in bfa_postinfo.php without luck:

PHP Code:

// 1st category, linked
    if ( strpos($postinfo_string,'%category-linked%') !== FALSE ) {
        $all_categories = get_the_category(); 
        //Default to first category
       $categoryIndex = 0;
       
       //If first category is "Featured", select second category
       if ($all_categories[$categoryIndex] == 10)
           $categoryIndex = 1;
        $category = $all_categories[$categoryIndex]->cat_name;
        $category_linked = '<a href="' . get_category_link($all_categories[$categoryIndex]->cat_ID) .
        '">' . $category . '</a>';
        $postinfo = str_replace("%category-linked%", $category_linked, $postinfo);
    } 


I would appreciate any hint or help

Thanks

I use Atahualpa 3.4.6
Link to site: http://bit.ly/aTa8yB

can you gie some more detail.
Please list an example of a post and all it's categories and the category that is showing up.

try this, add '%categories(', ')%' to the kicker and
add '%category-linked%' to the byline
the first category listed in the kicker should be in the byline.

categories list in alphabetical order

Thanks Juggledad.

I have three categories: News, Blog, Featured. All posts got the categories News or Blog before they got assigned to the Featured Category. I tried your suggestion with listing all categories for a post and Featured was listed as the first Category for all posts that also got the 'News' category, but not for the 'Blog' category.

Anyway. I friend helped me with a workaround code below so it excludes my Feature category. So I'm happy now but it still doesn't work as it should do for me with the %category-linked%.

I have no idea if this might have something to do with that I have imported posts, pages, categories etc from an old installation.

Thanks!

PHP Code:

// 1st category, linked
   if ( strpos($postinfo_string,'%category-linked%') !== FALSE ) {
       $all_categories = get_the_category(); 
       //Default to first category
      $categoryIndex = 0;
      
      //If first category is "Featured", select second category
      if ($all_categories[$categoryIndex]->cat_ID == 10)

          $categoryIndex = 1;
$category = $all_categories[$categoryIndex]->cat_name;
       $category_linked = '<a href="' . get_category_link($all_categories[$categoryIndex]->cat_ID) .
       '">' . $category . '</a>';
       $postinfo = str_replace("%category-linked%", $category_linked, $postinfo);