Any PHP'ers out there? I have a little question.

I made a blog using wordpress.

I made categories to organize my posts.

I wanted to display links to all posts in a given category on my sidebar when that category is selected.

I got a widget to display the links. The way the widget works demands that you can only use one of its kind for each category. So I make one for each of my categories. Problem solved...not quite.

When I visit a category page and click any of the post links the widget disappears. But I have a plan...

I get a plug in that will allow me to continue to display the widget as long as certain PHP conditions are being met.

Im currently using the conditions:
is_single || is_category('category-slug-here')

-BECAUSE-

If I just use is_category the widget does not display on individual posts

If I just use is_single the widget doesnt display on the category pages

If I use both with an OR operator (||) it displays on both pages but because I used a different widget for each category it displays every widget.

I only want to show links to the posts relevant to the category.

What code could I use to do this?
The plug in will allow absolutely any PHP, not jsut conditions.
I just suck at PHP and have no idea how to do it.

Cheers!

Moved to the appropriate section.

Hiya.

You're probably using the wrong plugin for the job. There's actually at least 7 out there for handling categories. I know because I just finished adapting one for some custom code I was doing yesterday. Here's a few to check out.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/breukies-categories-widget/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extended-categories-widget/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-posts/

If you're stuck on using your plugin, your "is_category" call looks like it's hardcoded. I just checked my code and I'm using a numeric category number. Not sure how you'd find out which category it is using code.

Lemonade