Unusual Request: Use Page title as category definition.

  • Resolved opus13i

    (@opus13i)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    One of the page templates is a ‘page-blog_template.php’ I see the call 

    <?php
		if(!empty($optimizer['blog_cat_id'])){
			$blogcat = $optimizer['blog_cat_id'];
			$blogcats =implode(',', $blogcat);
			}else{$blogcats = '';}

      $args = array(
                     'post_type' => 'post',
                     'cat' => ''.$blogcats.'',
                     'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1),
                     'posts_per_page' => ''.absint($optimizer['blog_num_id']).'');
      $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
   ?>

    How would i take the page title and use that title as the category to display posts from?

    For instance I have a page with the name ‘New Jack City’ and want to display all posts from new-jack-city on that page. I could do a

    ‘
    $title = get_the_title();
    $catrep = str_replace(‘ ‘, ‘-‘, $title);
    $blogCat = strtolower($catrep);
    ‘

    To give me the matching category slug… but then what? I don’t have the chops to see this through :/

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  • Thread Starter opus13i

    (@opus13i)

    Oh snap! I figured it out.

    $title = get_the_title();
    $catrep = str_replace(' ', '-', $title);
    $blogCat = strtolower($catrep);
    $idObj = get_category_by_slug($blogCat);
    $id = $idObj->term_id;

    $args = array(
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'cat' => $id,
      'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1),
      'posts_per_page' => '3');
    $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
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