so I have this Issue that I cannot solve no matter what I do , thanks in advance for help :
What I am trying to do is that when I am on the post page , I give a class to the parent to its parent
I am using the following code to get the post id and its category id:
get_header();
$theCategory = get_the_category();
$categories = get_categories( array(
'orderby' => 'name',
'order' => 'ASC',
'parent' => 52,
'hide_empty' => 0
));
$thiscat = get_queried_object_id();
$catobject = get_category($thiscat,false); // Get the Category object by the id of current category
$catobject2 = get_category($catobject,false);
$parentcat = $catobject2->category_parent; // the id of the parent category
?>
<div class="container">
<?php echo category_description( get_query_var( 'cat' ) ); ?>
</div>
<?php var_dump($thiscat) ?>
After this , if the post is in the right categoty I am trying to add a class of active here :
<?php if( $categories ): ?>
<ul class="main-categ">
<?php foreach ( $categories as $kCat => $vCat ): ?>
<li class="main-item <?php echo $thiscat->category_parent == $vCat->cat_ID ? 'active' : ''; ?>"><?php
$subCategories = get_categories( array(
'orderby' => 'name',
'order' => 'ASC',
'parent' => $vCat->cat_ID,
'hide_empty' => 0
));?>
<a class="main-link"><?php echo $vCat->name; ?></a>
<?php if( $subCategories ): ?>
<ul class="subcateg">
<?php foreach ( $subCategories as $kSub => $vSub ): ?>
<li class="<?php echo get_query_var( 'cat' ) == $vSub->cat_ID ? 'activ':'';?>"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_category_link( $vSub->cat_ID ) ); ?>"><i class="fa fa-angle-double-right"></i> <?php echo $vSub->name; ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>