marcusgee

Never mind–I found what I was looking for, and it works pretty well. Here’s the code:

<?php
$catslug = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'catslug', TRUE);
$cat = get_post_meta($post->ID, catslug, TRUE); ?>

<?php query_posts( 'category_name=' . $cat ); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<?php endwhile;?>

Where “catslug” takes the place of “Attorney Slug” as the name of the custom field. Thanks for all the help!

How might the code for that look if I created a custom field called “Attorney Slug” that was exactly the same as the category slug? I imagine it would involve php echo get_posts, wouldn’t it?

I was wondering if it was possible to incorporate <?php the_title(); ?> as a variable in pulling up the posts for an individual category. Since “Homer Hickham” is also the title of the page and the name of the category, would it be possible to use <?php the_title(); ?>
as a variable to do this?

Well, the trick is that a lot of times the posts won’t be authored by the person in question. It’ll just be about that person, and typically authored by me. That’s why I was hoping there was a way to reference the tag.

Ideally, I’d like to tag a post as “John Smith” and then have anything tagged as him appear in the posts section of the sidebar.