category recent thumbnails reverts back to mixed thumbnails

[excitedrod]

Hello,

I managed to get the 'recent photos' to show the relevant category thumbnails for that category being viewed.

However after you click on one of the recent photos thumbnails, the next page it brings up has the thumbnails from all categories below it. Can I get it to show just the recent photos from the same category?

It also says 'comments are closed' on those pages, how can i get rid of them?

eg http://meyouphotography.com/?p=114

Thanks for your help

[SoZo]

For the comments open index.php and delete this:

<div class="commentsleft">
		
			<?php comments_template('',true); ?>
			
		</div>

And to get different recent photos for each category you will need to create several different recent.php files and then set some sort of conditional statement to call the appropriate file also in index.php

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

[excitedrod]

Thanks.

I don't know enough php to do the conditional statements. But found a post by steveayres with the following code for recent.php which did the job:

<div id="photos">

<?php $categories = get_the_category(); $category = $categories[0]; $cat_ID = $category->cat_ID;?>
<h3>Recent <?php echo($category->cat_name);?> Photography</h3>
<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=$cat_ID&showposts=10"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
[img]<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, [/img]" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
<?php endwhile; ?>

</div>

[SoZo]

Great! Glad you got it figured out.

[buzybonnie]

just as an fyi to others who read this. Adew posted a solution to getting the thumbnails to be from categories in one of the other posts also discussing categorical thumbnails. Solution also uses conditional statements but within just one recent.php file and it works! :D.

[SoZo]

Care to provide a link?

[buzybonnie]

Thanks for the code on removing the closed comments. worked like a charm. my site is looking much better now :).

Link for the thumbnails by category that also uses conditional statement is viewtopic.php?f=32&t=6442&start=40

Adew's code that did finally work is on page 3.