How to List Categories and Vary -y and -ies Suffixes?

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  ccano · Member · Feb 2, 2007 at 4:16 pm

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  Hi everyone. Here’s what I’m trying to do, I’d be very grateful if you can help me:

  I want to include a sentence under each of my posts that says “If you enjoyed this post, read more like it in the [category name(s)] category OR categories.

  Here are the things that would vary: if there’s one category, the sentence should read “in the BLANK categorY. If there are two categories, it should say “in the BLANK & BLANK categorIES. If there are more than two categories, it should say “in the BLANK , BLANK & BLANK categorIES.

  So the -y and -ies categor- suffixes would change depending on the number of categories. And a comma would be added between categories (except the last one, which would take an &) if there were more than two categories.

  I’d imagine there’s a way to do this with PHP, but how? Thanks a ton in advance.

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  cornell · Member · Feb 2, 2007 at 4:43 pm

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  Ocano

  Are you on wp.com or self-hosted?

  if you’re on wp.com there’s no way to do this automatically, it’s a manual insert.

  If you’re self-hosted there are plugins already available to do this. Unfortunately you’re at the wrong forum. You need to be at http://www.wordpress.org.

  HTH

  Collin

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  ccano · Member · Feb 2, 2007 at 9:26 pm

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  Oh my, I’m in the wrong place!

  Started a post at .org and I’m resolving this now. Thanks :)