Need help with else if statement

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I am trying to set up my blog so that there are different colors for 2 different categories, however, if there is a post that is tagged with neither of these 2 categories I want it to default to green.

Here is my code:

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    <?php if ( in_category( 'News' )) : ?>
    <div class="green">
    <?php elseif ( in_category('Blog')) : ?>
    <div class="orange">
    <?php endif; ?>

So basically I want to change it so that if the post isn’t in the “News” or the “Blog” category, it will just default to the “green” class.

Thanks in advance!

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  1. You should familiarize yourself with PHP, but if you want a default color ( assuming the code below already works ) you could do:

    <?php if ( in_category( 'News' )) : ?>
    <div class="green">
<?php elseif ( in_category('Blog')) : ?>
    <div class="orange">
<?php else : ?>
    <div class="pink">
<?php endif; ?>

  2. I’d suggest you use post_class for this. The following goes into your functions.php:

    function category_name_post_class( $classes ) {
    global $post;
        $categories = get_the_category( $post->ID );
    foreach( $categories as $category)
        $classes[] = $category->category_nicename;
        return $classes;
}
add_filter('post_class', 'category_name_post_class');

    Your div now looks like this:

    <div <?php post_class(); ?>>

    which output some thing like:

    <div class="your-category-name">

    the styling is done via CSS as always.

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