WP Theme Footer with Linked Page Dissection

Got a Wordpress Conference theme, lets you enter speakers into a database and assign each one a category/role.

In the settings for the theme, there’s a dropdown from which you can select one of the roles you create. Doing so will display all the speakers assigned that role in the footer of the homepage and also populate a stand-alone Speakers page with the same role.

I want to make it so that the footer on the homepage displays one role and the stand-alone speaker page displays another.

Here’s the PHP for the Speakers page (identical to the footer PHP)

[php]<?php
/**

  • Template Name: Speakers page
  • Description: Speakers page
  • @package WordPress
  • @subpackage wpconference
  • @since wpconference 0.1
    */

get_header(); ?>

<div id="primary">
	<div id="content" role="main">
	
	<h1 class='entry-title'><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

		<?php 
			global $conf_sched; 
			
			$speakers_category = $conf_sched->get_option('speakers-category',-1); 
			if($speakers_category !=-1){ 
				$speaker = get_term($speakers_category, 'participant-roles');
				$conf_sched->shortcode_participants(array('role'=>$speaker->slug));	
			}else
			{
				_e("To be annouced...",'wpconference');
			}
									
		?>
</div> <!-- #content -->
</div> <!--  #primary -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>[/php]

Here’s the HTML for the “dropdown” portion of the settings, where you can see the role categories available. “Speaker” is the default created by the Theme, “whyattend” is the one I made.

[php]

Speakers Category



Speaker
whyattend



Please choose which category is your speakers category. If none is available please go to Participants menu and add a new role speakers

[/php]

I want “whyattend” to show on the Footer and “Speaker” to populate the Speakers page.

Can this be done?

I’m not sure what you are trying to do here is clear.

What value are you trying to display?

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