I'm currently using the following loop in my index.php to display several sub-categories on the left side of a page:
<?php
//get terms (e.g. categories or post tags), then display all posts in each retrieved term
$taxonomy = 'category';// e.g. post_tag, category
$param_type = 'category__in'; // e.g. tag__in, category__in
$term_args=array(
'orderby' => 'name',
'order' => 'ASC',
'child_of' => 123
);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
if ($terms) {
foreach( $terms as $term ) {
$args=array(
"$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'showposts' => -1,
'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
echo '<h1 style="text-decoration:none;padding-bottom:30px;font-weight:normal;"><a href="' . get_category_link( $term->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $term->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $term->name. '</a></h1> ';
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php
endwhile;
}
}
}
wp_reset_query();
?>
Problem is that I have two pages with similar layouts, so when I leave page 1 and go to page 2, the 'child_of' => 123 part from the first page is also on the second, so second page shows links to posts from the first page. Is there a way to make 'child_of' detect which page the visitor is currently on, and display the post sub-categories accordingly?