Wordpress: How to show posts from a specific category via the loop?

Question

I have a menu bar with different topics (technology, food, etc.) When I click on one of those, I would like to display all posts that have that specific topic assigned. Everything I have found online shows me how to do this by specifying the topic using an ID. However, I do not want to "hard code" it, but rather run a function that gets the name of the page, and then displays posts that correspond to that category. So essentially, instead of having cat=1 in my query argument, I would like to enter code that gets the title of the page, as the title of the page equals the category I want to show. I have posted the first part of my code below. My loop works fine other than that and displays the content how I want it to. I just need to figure out how to dynamically fetch the page title and assign that as the category value. Thank you for any help

<?php query_posts('cat=1'); ?>
    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Ruhul Amin Ruhul Amin · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-22T22:32:16

If you want to use Custom template:

The idea can be. You need to use page(in the menu) same as category slug.

Then get page slug using:

<?php global $post; $post_slug=$post->post_name; ?>

Complete code for template:

global $post;
$post_slug=$post->post_name;

 $args = array( 'category_name' => $post_slug );
// The Query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

// The Loop
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<ul>';
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
    $the_query->the_post();
    echo '<li>' . get_the_title() . '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
/* Restore original Post Data */
wp_reset_postdata();
} else {
// no posts found
}

OR you can add those categories into menu from Appearance>>Menus and then

category.php or
archive.php

will show your all posts of specific category just you need to modify to fit your requirements. For more: https://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates

Wordpress: How to show posts from a specific category via the loop?

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