Title: query posts by category defined by variable?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# query posts by category defined by variable?

 *  [lizzmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizzmo/)
 * (@lizzmo)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-posts-by-category-defined-by-variable/)
 * Hi I’m trying to query posts that are from the category of the current page and
   also have the tag ‘news’. Heres the code I’m using.
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 *  Thread Starter [lizzmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizzmo/)
 * (@lizzmo)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-posts-by-category-defined-by-variable/#post-2322199)
 * I simplified the query to just the tag and its still not working…
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 *  Thread Starter [lizzmo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizzmo/)
 * (@lizzmo)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-posts-by-category-defined-by-variable/#post-2322403)
 * code: [http://pastebin.com/5AFu9L5P](http://pastebin.com/5AFu9L5P)
 * page: [http://occa-art.com/cai-yuan/news](http://occa-art.com/cai-yuan/news)

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 * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/)
 * [query_post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/query_post/)
 * [tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tag/)

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-posts-by-category-defined-by-variable/#post-2322403)
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