WordPress – Need help populating a menu with the titles of Custom Posts with a specific Category

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I’m working with WordPress 3.1.4 – and trying to dynamically populate a menu with Custom Posts with a specific category as you can see here.

So on the page – I have the main loop – which is listing through all of the toy products. The products are all from a custom post type labelled ‘products’ – and each product belongs to a different category – soft toys, games etc.

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In the sidebar menu, i have written the following code for each category in order to list products within the given category: 

<ul class="acitem">
<?php query_posts(array ('post_type' => 'products''cat=games')); ?>
<?php $games_query = new WP_Query("category_name=games"); ?>
<?php while ($games_query->have_posts()) : $games_query->the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>      
</ul>

For some reason no list items are being generated. Is it possible this is a conflict with the main loop on the page?

Any suggestions or pointers appreciated! –

PS – I’m using the following plugins:

  • custom post type ui
  • WP page-navi

in case this has any bearing.

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  1. Please try the following code snippet.

    <ul class="acitem">
<?php $games_query = new WP_Query(array('post_type'=>'product','category_name'=>'games','posts_per_page'=>-1)); ?>
<?php while ($games_query->have_posts()) : $games_query->the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>   
</ul>

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

  2. I eventually got this to work by swapping the second line of boxofts’ code for the following – 

    <?php $games_query = new WP_Query('post_type=products&category_name=soft-toys'); ?>