Need help on creating If-statement in Wordpress

CMS & WordPress
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I’m using Wordpress. I have a movie review website called http://filmblurb.org. For my blog posts, I’m trying to create posts with different categories. Under the “Reviews” category, I have a “Details” box that serves as meta information for all my reviews. The problem is when I try to create a post that has the category of “Features” or something else, that “Details” box still remains. Basically, I want to try to create a PHP if statement that will only return the following code sequence when I only write a “Reviews” post. I’m using the “get_post_meta” tag in Wordpress to fill in this “Details” box for every “Reviews” post I write. A sample post can be found here: http://www.filmblurb.org/reviews/97. Can anybody help me on this? I would appreciate it. Let me know if I need to explain more.

<div class="box">
<div class="boxheader">Details</div>
<div class="text">
<h1>Genre</h1>
<p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'genre', true); ?></p>
<h1>Rated</h1>
<p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'rated', true); ?></p>
<h1>Release Date</h1>
<p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'releasedate', true); ?></p>
<h1>Runtime</h1>
<p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'runtime', true); ?></p>
<h1>Director</h1>
<p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'director', true); ?></p>
<h1>Cast</h1>
<p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'cast', true); ?></p>
<h1>Grade</h1>
<p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'grade', true); ?></p>
</div>
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Welcome to SitePoint!

You can retrieve custom fields for a specific category like this:


<?php if (in_category('reviews')) { ?>
<div class="box">
 <div class="boxheader">Details</div>
  <div class="text">
   <h1>Genre</h1>
   <p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'genre', true); ?></p>
   <h1>Rated</h1><p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'rated', true); ?></p>
   <h1>Release Date</h1><p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'releasedate', true); ?></p>
   <h1>Runtime</h1><p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'runtime', true); ?></p>
   <h1>Director</h1><p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'director', true); ?></p>
   <h1>Cast</h1><p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'cast', true); ?></p>
   <h1>Grade</h1><p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'grade', true); ?></p>
  </div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
3

This worked! Thank you very much!