So on my template for taxonomy-product_tag.php, I want to get all product id’s from the Category.
Here is how I currently do it
<?php
$post_ids = array();
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'product_cat' => 'dog-collars', 'orderby' => 'rand' );
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $loop->have_posts() ) {
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
$post_ids[] = get_the_ID();
endwhile;
} else {
echo __( 'No products found' );
}
wp_reset_query();
print_r($post_ids);
?>
I can loop through the product_cat, pull id’s into an array and then further down the page I use foreach and the WC product factory to manipulate data how I want it shown for users.
My problem is I need the loop to be Dynamic based on categories, and I can’t understand how to do this.
I did think I can just grab the category name from the url
<?php $actual_link = "http://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]"; ?>
Grab it and the parse to just get the last , i.e category name, and then print into loop
But this seems like it would be a really poor way of doing it.
What I want is in the args
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'product_cat' => 'DYNAMICHERE', 'orderby' => 'rand' );
I want to be able to populate product_cat dynamically based on the category I am on
Any help or advise / pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated
Use
get_query_var( 'product_cat' )
.