How to display custom posts of only one category?

Question

I'm trying to display one category at a time using my category.php file for custom post type 'portfolio'.

This code gives me the category (in this case, a year like "2016"), but doesn't display any posts attached to that category. I have a feeling this is because I'm not using WP_query to specifically search post_type='porfolio' ... but when I add that, all of the portfolio posts show up instead of just the ones in the category selected:

<?php single_cat_title(); ?>

<div class="grand-works">


            <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>


         <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

                <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'works' ); ?>

            <?php endwhile; endif; // end of the loop. ?>

        <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

</div>

Help?

Answer 1 · 2017-03-17T02:26:16Z

March 17, 2017 2:26am

For anyone having trouble, I finally figured this out minutes ago after hours of reading:

<?php single_cat_title(); ?> <div class="grand-works">

<?php $current_category = single_cat_title("", false); ?>

<?php

        // The Arguments
        $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'portfolio', 
            'category_name'  => $current_category
        );  

        // The Query
        $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>

        <?php

        // If we have the posts...
        if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : ?>

        <!-- Start the loop the loop --> 
            <?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>

                <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'works' ); ?>

            <?php endwhile; endif; // end of the loop. ?>

        <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

</div>

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How to display custom posts of only one category?

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