WP_Query problem

Question

Hi! I will try to do a loop that display a custom post with a the same category of the current article. If I pass the category name to a simple variable the code works, when I pass a variables this doesn't work.

Here my code, probably i have a syntax error.

<?php
    wp_reset_postdata();
    wp_reset_query();

    $currentCategory = get_the_category_list();
    $args = array(
      'post_type' => 'puppies',
      'category_name'  => $currentCategory
    );
    $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );?>

Thanks in advice

Answer 1 · 2016-04-16T19:13:00Z

April 16, 2016 7:13pm

Alessandro

Did you try echoing the $currentCategory value?

<?php
    wp_reset_postdata();
    wp_reset_query();

    $currentCategory = echo get_the_category_list(', ');
    $args = array(
      'post_type' => 'puppies',
      'category_name'  =>  $currentCategory
    );
    $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );?>

Answer 2 · 2016-04-19T09:30:45Z

April 19, 2016 9:30am

Hi Bob and thanks so much.

Yes I tried this ticks but doesn't work. If I'll do this the page returns a 500 server error.

Do you think I have to push it into array?

Thanks a lot and sorry for my bad english.

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WP_Query problem

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