Dynamically filtering loop where page name equals category

  • Resolved travismallen

    (@travismallen)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hi All,

    I had an idea that if I create a category per page with the same name I could dynamically filter the loop for each page by category, without having to create a separate loop for each page.

    My results are not working as I hoped, it returns all of the pages and categories.

    Has anyone done this before? Below is the URL to the site and the function…Thanks for the help!

    http://www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/mfs/our-studio/

    <?php function my_index_loop() { ?>
	<?php if (is_home()) : ?>
	<!--Custom stuff for homepage--!>
	<?php else : ?>
	<?php
	$title = the_title();
	$page_name = str_replace(" ", "-", $title);
	$pageslug = $post->post_name; // name of the page (slug)
	$catslug = get_category_by_slug($pageslug); // get category of the same slug
	$catid = $catslug->term_id;  // get id of this category
	$this_query= 'cat=' . $catid. '';
	?>
	<?php $other_query = new WP_Query($this_query);?>
		<?php while ($other_query->have_posts()): $other_query->the_post(); ?>
			<div class="middle-block">
				<?php
					the_title();
					the_content('Read more...');
				?>
			</div>
			<div class="bottom-block">
				<div class="quote">
					<h3>"Craft is there to sustain the original impulse, and to preserve the momentum"
					<br />-Stanley Kunitz</h3>
				</div>
			</div>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
	<?php endif;?>
<?php }
add_action('thematic_indexloop', 'my_index_loop');
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  • Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    I read a thread recently for doing just that, using a page’s name to pull posts from a category with the same name. It was an older thread, but the code used is still valid.

    Here’s 2 links for similar requests.
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/318531?replies=3
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/319812?replies=3

    Or there are additional results you may want to look through, i only had a quick look.
    http://wordpress.org/search/page+title+category?forums=1

    None of those are the thread i read before, but the above should still be relevant in helping.. 🙂

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    vtxyzzy has done some stuff you might find usefuL

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/349582

    But one category per page is somewhat ‘duplicative’ of the natural Category archive process that WordPress provides…

    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    But one category per page is somewhat ‘duplicative’ of the natural Category archive process that WordPress provides…

    I’d been thinking the same thing, but it seems to be a fairly popular request nonetheless, the whole “Show my category on a page” thing..

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    And this tag:
    http://wordpress.org/tags/page_of_categories

    Thread Starter travismallen

    (@travismallen)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks! I’ve been putting most of my code in functions.php vs. a separate template. I’ll see if I can merge some of the above with my approach and post results. Thanks again!

    P.S. I agree that is somewhat duplicative – I’m using this approach because the majority of the content is not blog oriented, so the categories function as more of a data binding tool than a tagging/group attribute.

    Thread Starter travismallen

    (@travismallen)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Turns out if was a simple tweak.

    For anyone’s future reference. my goal was you dynamically change the loop to filter by category name where it was equal to the page name.

    <?php
	$title = wp_title('', FALSE);
	$page_name = str_replace(" ", "-", $title);
	$this_query= 'category_name=' . $page_name;
	?>
	<?php $other_query = new WP_Query($this_query);?>
		<?php while ($other_query->have_posts()): $other_query->the_post(); ?>
			<div class="middle-block">
				<div class="general-block">
					<?php the_content('Read more...'); ?>
				</div>
			</div>
			<div class="bottom-block">
				<div class="quote">
					<h3>"Craft is there to sustain the original impulse, and to preserve the momentum"
					<br />-Stanley Kunitz</h3>
				</div>
			</div>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    I know i’ve seen a great example for doing just that, provided by one of the regular members, i still can’t find the thread though (not that there’s anything wrong with the suggestions already).

    I’ve added a few more tags to the thread, hopefully it will help future users looking for information.

    And thanks for posting back your solution… 🙂

    Thread Starter travismallen

    (@travismallen)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    No problem!

    Side note: You might want to trim the $title string to be on the safe side. I.e. $page_name = str_replace(" ", "-", trim($title));

    That’s all I got!

    whatonline

    (@whatonline)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    This code helped me – thanks. I did change it slightly as I wanted to show posts where the tag was equal to the title…

    <?php
		$title = wp_title('', FALSE);
		$page_name = str_replace(" ", "-", trim($title));
		$this_query= 'tag=' . $page_name;
		?>
		<?php $other_query = new WP_Query($this_query);?>

			<?php while ($other_query->have_posts()): $other_query->the_post(); ?>
<!-- stuff -->
<?php endwhile; ?>

    Nice

    merlinox

    (@merlinox)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    And how can I do if I’d like to loop posts with a LIKE filter on Title or on Description? Thanks

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