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Hi Domanic ,
I Had check this post : http://www.designwall.com/question/post-page-style-same-like-category-style/
and find that there is an option to show up the catagory with its defined color in post ,

In Admin panel In widget option we have an option to Show the meta infomation of post and selected "show the catagory info " Its works fine .
Is there any option to get the color of its catagory .

2 Answers

DominicStaff
answered 10 years ago

Hi,
To resolve this issue, you can open the widgets file in the \wp-content\themes\dw-focus\inc\widgets folder.
Find the following code:

<?php 
                            if( isset( $instance['cat'] ) && $instance['cat'] ) {
                                $categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'dw_focus' ) );
                                    if ( $categories_list && dw_focus_categorized_blog() ) :
                                ?>
                                <span class="cat-links">
                                    <?php printf( '%1$s', $categories_list ); ?>
                                </span>
                                <?php
                                endif;
                            }
                        ?>

Then replace with the following code:

<span class="cat-links">
<?php $sep = '';
foreach((get_the_category()) as $cat) {
    echo $sep . '<a href="' . get_category_link($cat->term_id) . '"  class="cat-' . $cat->slug . '" title="View all posts in '. esc_attr($cat->name) . '">' . $cat->cat_name . '</a>';
$sep = ', ';
}
?>

Right now, you can use class cat- to change the Categories color.
Eg: your categories: Blog / Business / Entertainment.

Your Class:

.cat-blog {...}
.cat-business {....}
cat-entertainment {...}

Hope this helps !

Yes Domanic works awesome thanks save my day,

Hi Domanic i am back with a small question ,
Is there any possibilities to shortout the category which is showing in frontend on widget display area , I have selected more than one category for some post in frontend it displayed all the category which is got selected . Is there a way to display only selected category using category id or something like that.

dominic Staff
replied 10 years ago

Unfortunately, our theme do not support to make as you want.