Link from another page to specific category on post page

Hi Katie,
I’m not really sure whats happening here, but do you mean it should go to website.com/category/name/ ?

Is it just an issue where the link is incorrect?

On a single post, I have it so that at the bottom of the page, each category that post is in is listed with a link to that category.

When you click on those category links, it goes to https://mywebsite.com/category/my-category-name but it shows all of the blogs just like if you were on https://mywebsite.com.

I was hoping that when you clicked on the category and it went to https://mywebsite.com/category/my-category-name, it would just default to blogs tagged my-category-name.

Is that possible?
Thanks!

Yes that’s possible.
Have you added Ajax Load More to your category archive pages? If so, you need to add the category slug to the category=”slug” parameter of the Ajax Load More shortcode.

I have the shortcode added to the category archive page. I have been sorting by changing the word slug in category=’slug’ to the name of the category. My only issue is when a user clicks on a category link and goes to this page, it always just shows that one category (or categories) that I used instead of the word “slug” above. I was hoping there would be a way to add a variable inside so that it just shows whatever category they clicked on.

For Example (PS I know this doesn’t work)
<?php $myCategory = single_cat_title(); echo do_shortcode('[ajax_load_more post_type="post" category="'.$myCategory.'" posts_per_page="9" transition="fade" button_label="Previous News" container_type="div"]'); ?>

Is that possible?

Thanks!

I feel so silly – I had been looking for this for hours and just found that it is all listed under the “Examples” section of the plugin.

Just in case, here is the code for anyone else looking for this!

<?php
$cat = get_category( get_query_var( 'cat' ) );
$category = $cat->slug;
echo do_shortcode('[ajax_load_more category="'.$category.'"]');
?>

Thanks dcooney!

heh, ok great!
I wasnt sure exactly what you were looking for or I would have pointed you there right away ??