Display category value in query_post

• projectarthouse

• December 19, 2015 at 3:18 am

Hi all,

For my website I’ve created a custom field where I want to select per page which post category will be displayed. Now I am trying to display the posts with the selected category (ACF field name = categorie) by inserting the ACF in the query_posts. But somehow I am not getting anything back. The code I use is:

<?php 

  $newscat = get_field("categorie");  
  query_posts('category_name=' . $newscat . '&showposts=5=ASC'); ?>

  <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
     <div class="blok">
       <div class="container2">
          <div id="parallelogram">
             <i class="icons fa fa-newspaper-o"></i><p class="coltekst">Team nieuws

          </div>
          <a href="#"><p class="text-align-right">nieuwsoverzicht >
</a>
       </div>
     <div class="activiteiten">
     <ul class="list-group">
        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
           <li class="list-group-item"><span><a href='<?php the_permalink() ?>'><?php the_title(); ?></a></span></li>
        <?php endwhile; ?>                   
     </ul>          
     </div>
     </div>
     <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>  
  <?php else: ?>
<?php endif; ?>  

What am I doing wrong here?

• James

• January 8, 2016 at 5:02 pm

Hi @projectarthouse,

Could you please try to set the category name manually? something like:

query_posts('category_name=the-category-name&showposts=5=ASC'); ?>

If it returned correctly, could you please check the returned categorie field? You can check it like this:

var_dump(get_field("categorie"));

I hope this helps.