Search categories to find if one is equal to month and then display content

you can see what i’m doing here: https://laliberteonline.com
notice ‘marks schedule’. right now i have it displaying the current month, but when next month comes along I’ll have to change it.

<?php
		$args = array('post_type'=>'marks-schedule','category_name'=>'July','posts_per_page'=>4,);
			$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
			// The Loop
			while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
				//variables
				$permalink = get_permalink();
				$title = get_the_title();
				$img = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'medium' );
				echo '<span class="date-range">';
				the_field('days');
				echo '</span>';
				echo '<p>';
				echo  $title;
				echo '';
				the_field('event_type');
				echo '</p>';
				endwhile;
?>

So like I said, what I really want is to use php to determine which category matches the current month and then to display all the information listed above.

Anyone?

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If u have a category for each month , u can try saving the value of date(‘F’) in a variable and sending it directly to the query .

Thanks for the speedy reply! Could you provide an example of what this might look like? Sorry I’m not that good with writing code from scratch..

Try adding this :

$_month = date('F');
$args = array('post_type'=>'marks-schedule','category_name'=>$_month ,'posts_per_page'=>4,);

and the rest will be the same .