One category pr. page

Currently I have this on top of my category.php:

$cat_name = get_the_category( $id );
“$args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 6, ‘post_type’ => ‘larsarholmnet_posts’, ‘category-name’ => ‘$cat_name’ );”

How would it be possible for me to alter this so that it only shows one category pr. page based on the category name?

Try it without a query in the category.php and with this in your theme’s functions.php:

function my_post_queries( $query ) {
  // not an admin page and is the main query
  if (!is_admin() && $query->is_main_query()){
    if(is_category()){
      $query->set('posts_per_page', 6);
      $query->set('post_type', array('larsarholmnet_posts'));
    }
  }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_post_queries' );

btw:
consider creating a child theme instead of editing your theme directly – if you upgrade the theme all your modifications will be lost.

Thank you for your response!

I am a bit new to both WP and php, so I’ll have to ask the stupid question, when you say “without a query in category.php” do you mean to remove the lines I’ve posted in the first post and then copy+paste the code-snippet into my functions.php?

I guess it wasn’t, because when I did that it didn’t make it any better, it shows no posts..

But I made a child theme, seemed like a very good idea, thanks for the suggestion!

Can you post the code of catetegory.php – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code

I most certainly can do!

<?php get_header();?>

<section class="featured-post fifteen columns row">
<h1><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>
<ul>
<?php
	$query = new WP_Query( $args );
	while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post();
	?>

    <div class="cat-thumb">
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
   <h2><?php the_title();?></h2>
    <?php the_post_thumbnail('cat-thumb'); ?>
   <p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
     </a></div>

<?php endwhile;?>
    </ul>
<div id="push"></div>
</section>

<?php get_sidebar();?>

<?php get_footer();?>

Maybe I’m missing something but WP already does what you want by default. The only place posts from different categories would be mixed is a date archive page. Instead of trying to filter those pages, just add the categories to your navigation so people can select what they want to see, without having to filter on a date archive page.

@webbrewers Well, if WP already did it, I would not be asking. I haveset it up with categories in the navigation, but the posts are not sorting them, only giving me all the posts in all the categories pages..