Used ACF to Add Category to Page, Can't use ARG to get posts that match page cat

• doeyjavis

• May 27, 2014 at 5:05 am

I used ACF to add categories to my pages so that I could get posts the match the page’s category in the page template. However, I have been unable to get this to work. The below works for hard using the category:

<ul>
<?php 
$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 3, 'category_name' => 'senate');

$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach ( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; 
wp_reset_postdata();?>

</ul>

But when I try to use the taxonomy field:

<?php $args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 3, 'category_name' => get_field('post_sorting'));

$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach ( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?>
<li>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</li>
<?php endforeach; 
wp_reset_postdata();?>

It gets all posts. Even when I’ve done $sort = get_field('post_sorting'); and used that in category_name=>$sort it grabs all posts. Is there any way I can set it up so that the category I set in post_sorting for the page is used as the category of posts that are gathered?