“Basically I want to take all of the posts in the “Freelance” category and remove them from the main content so that I can link to them from a page instead of including them in the Loop. ”

Here is the code to exclude an entire category from appearing within the WordPress loop:

<?php query_posts('cat=-3'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- Display the Title as a link to the Post's permalink. -->
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

Basically, what you’re doing with the above code is telling the loop that if it’s in category 3, just remove it from the query that the loop is using.

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 $current = $post->ID;
$parent = $post->post_parent;
$get_grandparent = get_post($parent);
$grandparent = $get_grandparent->post_parent;
$get_greatgrandparent = get_post($grandparent);
$greatgrandparent = $get_greatgrandparent->post_parent; 
echo "parent = $parent; grandparent = $grandparent; greatgrandparent = $greatgrandparent";

If you wanted to, you could continue this pattern to N number of ancestors…

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Here is an example of one of the shorter titles I was given:

Here is an example of one of the longer titles I was given:

A series of quick if/else statements and use of the strlen function in PHP allows me to assign different classes depending on the length of the dynamic title. I figured out, based on the CSS on the H1 class, that 14 was my magic number.

Here’s the quick snippet of code I used:

$title = $post->post_title;
$char_title = strlen($title);

if ($char_title > 14) {$header_style = "double";}

else {$header_style = "single";}

I grab the post title using common WordPress calls and make it into the $title variable. The I use the strlen function to determine the number of characters (including spaces) in the title. If it’s greater than 14, it assigns the $header_style variable the class “double” or else it assigns it the “single” class.

Here is how I used it within the WordPress loop:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="<?php echo $header_style ?>"><h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2></div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

Hopefully you’ve found this quick tutorial valuable. Contact me if you have any questions or would do it a different way. There’s 1,001 ways to do everything – that’s why I love coding.