Display Categories & Posts based on single Tag

  • I trying to code a page which displays category heading with 3 posts which contain a single tag.

    In essence the tag is acting like a parent category.

    I can list all the posts which have the tag no problem but I can’t seem to filter the categories.

    So I’m looking to display…. just for example

    Tag – Germany (page)

    Mercedes
    -Car 1
    -Car 2
    -Car 3
    Audi
    -Car 1
    -Car 2
    -Car 3
    BMW
    -Car 1
    -Car 2
    -Car 3

    I can’t set Germany as a parent category (which would be soooo much easier I know)

    Any ideas…

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  • Thread Starter hilmon

    (@hilmon)

    Ok this is a real hack and is a little too reliant on elements having the same name but here’s the solution I came up with.

    I created a page for each of the tags and gave them the same name.

    In page.php ….

    <?php
$post_obj = $wp_query->get_queried_object(); // Get post data outside the loop
$post_name = $post_obj->post_name; // Post Name and Tag must match
$post_title = $post_obj->post_title;

$args=array(
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC'
  );
$categories=get_categories($args); // get array of all categories
  foreach($categories as $category) { // loop thru each category
  $tag = explode(" ",$category->name); // get first word of category
  $title = explode(" ",$post_title); //get first word of page title
  if ( $title[0] == $tag[0]) { // if match .... the page matches category matches tag ..... !!!
  echo '<h1><a>term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all news in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a></h1>'; ?>

<ul>
  <?php
  query_posts ( array ( 'category_name' => $category->name, 'posts_per_page' => -1 ));
 while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

  <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
  <?php  endwhile;
  wp_reset_query();?>
  </ul>
  <?php }
	}
  ?>

    I’m sure there is a WP query which could have done the same job a lot better …. monday morning deadline :-/

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