[Solved] Show posts with same category name as page name

[dryan1144]

I’m trying to come up with a solution for a photography site I am working on using WP.

Here’s what I’m up to:

1) I have a Gallery page, with lots of different sub-pages.
2) Each of these sub-pages is a gallery.
3) For example the New York sub-page will show all posts with a category name of New York.
4) I want to use only ONE page template for each of these gallery sub-pages. So I need a way to dynamically show all posts with a category name equal to the name of the sub-page that is showing those posts.

Does that make sense? Maybe there’s a better way of going about this? Custom fields? Bottom line is I don’t want to have to create a new page template every time a new photo gallery is added.

The following piece of code worked for me, displaying all posts from category three, but of course means that I will have to create a new page template each time I want to add a photo gallery. Not ideal.

Code:

I tried using wp-title to grab the name of the gallery and find posts that have that same name:

Code:

‘); if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

…but it didn’t seem to work for me. It just returned posts from my blog category.

Anyone have any ideas?

Didn’t wo

[davesgonebananas]

Code:

query_posts(array(
‘category_name’ => $post->post_title,
‘showposts’ => 10
));

[dryan1144]

Dave, thanks very much for the code. It works great and is a huge help to me.

Thanks!

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