sometimes infinity is a loop

Today I had to set up a way to organize and publish the content of customer testimonials. Excerpts from these testimonials were going to appear in the left column of the page, in addition to being able to viewed in their entirety. So the designer of the site and I both agreed they should be Posts, submitted within a Testimonial category.

On the page where the testimonial should appear, the client would have the option of getting a specific Testimonial to appear in the left column. However, if the client forgot to specify a Testimonial post, then a random testimonial would appear instead.

Here is the code that went in index.php… Continue reading →

Sometimes it’s useful to know whether the current post or page is within a specified hierarchical section of the site.

For example, I may have a page on my site called “Super Funky”, and some child pages dedicated to James Brown, Sly Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, etc. On these pages, I have some special code that prevents them from uncontrollably getting down on the dancefloor… but the question is, how do we set up the logic that will check whether we are within the Super Funky section of the site? Continue reading →