Posts & Category display

Hello,

I’m learning how to write loops and what not, problem is I am trying to create a custom category page, I’ve managed to slowly write a query to pull in 5 posts from a specific category but it’s only displaying one. Is there anything wrong with my code below? (obviously there is!).

<?php

get_header('topbar'); ?>
	
<div class="blog_container">
		<h2 class="blog-title">
		Latest News
		</h2>
	<p>
		News information and much more.
	</p>
</div>

<?php
        // the query
        $the_query = new WP_Query(array(
					'category_name' => 'my-category-slug',
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'posts_per_page' => 6,
        ));
        ?>

        <?php if ($the_query->have_posts()) : ?>
            <?php while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
                <?php the_category(', '); ?>
                <?php the_title(); ?>
                <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
                <?php the_content(); ?>

            <?php endwhile; ?>
            <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

        
        <?php endif; ?>

	<div class="container bloglist">

				<div class="blog_list_outter">
					<div class="blog_author">
							<div class="author_image"><?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta('ID'), 60); ?></div>
					</div>

					<div class="post-grid">
						<h2 class="blog_heading">
							<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
						</h2>
							<div class="category_title">
										<div class="category__list__card">
												<p class="cat">
													<?php echo get_the_category_list(', '); ?>
												</p>
										</div>
										<div class="post__stamp">
													<?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?>
										</div>
							</div>
					</div>
			</div>
	</div>

<?php get_footer();

?>