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Posted by Brett Anthony
Brett Anthony
4,289 Points

Woocommerce get category id when o the category pages

HI All,

I have a slider on my category template file that shows products and this works fine.

The issue i have is that i only want to display the products from the category that the user is one. The plugin allows me to drop in the categories id.

what is the easiest way of putting the categories id into a variable?

i am wanting to put this into the template page so would need to be able to work for any category.

Cheers

Brett

2 Answers

Chris Hubbard
Chris Hubbard
2,253 Points
Chris Hubbard
Chris Hubbard
2,253 Points

It's hard to say without seeing your working code, but you could try something like this:

$cat = get_the_category();

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'category_name' => '$cat',
);

$the_query = new WP_Query( '$args' );

if ( have_posts() ) : while ( $the_query -> have_posts() ) : $the_query -> the_post();
Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points
Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points

With woocommerce it's product_cat().