jclark5093

Really not elegant, but I found a solution that works for me for now. It’s hard coded for my 4 categories instead of dynamically generating them, but it’s functional.

If there’s a better solution, please post. I will leave this thread open for a few days.

<?php // assign the variable as current category based on the current page
$cat_slug = '';
global $post;
$pagename = $post->post_name;

if ($pagename =='business') { $cat_slug = 'business-for-sale'; }
elseif ($pagename =='commercial') { $cat_slug = 'commercial-listing'; }
elseif ($pagename =='residential') { $cat_slug = 'residential-listing'; }
elseif ($pagename =='hotels-motels') { $cat_slug = 'hotel-motel-listing'; }

query_posts( array( 'category_name' => $cat_slug, 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) );  ?>

I think I realized that I’m trying to make my pages behave like a category.php page. Is there a way to gather a category type for the posts I want to display inside a custom page.php?

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I think this is in the wrong section.

Moved thread to troubleshooting section (new thread is here), closing this thread.

I found a single line that works where ‘business-for-sale’ is the (default?) slug for the category.

<?php query_posts( array( 'category_name' => 'business-for-sale', 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) ); ?>

I’m not sure what the php if statement is for, is it important?

Also, what can I put in that spot for the slug that would be a variable based on the current page (I need 4)?

I did some searching through, and think that what I need to alter is the query, not the loop. I should be able to run a standard loop after using a query like this:

if ( is_category( 'category-slug' ) ) : 

	 query_posts( array( 'category_name' => 'my-category-slug', 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) ); 

endif;

but is there a difference between ‘category-slug’ and ‘my-category-slug’? Let’s say a slug is “business” so should my code read:

if ( is_category( 'business' ) ) : 

	 query_posts( array( 'category_name' => 'business', 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) ); 

endif;

or would I need to define ‘category_name’ somewhere (or is that a system recognized name?)