I'm creating a plugin and I already could get the posts by category and by the current language using get_posts() function from WordPress and passing the attribute lang with the pll_current_language() from PolyLang.
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 6,
'orderby' => 'date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'lang' => pll_current_language()
);
return get_posts($args);
Now, I'm wondering how to get the posts by categories related to the language? For example, I have the News category for English and Noticias for Spanish. How can I set this automatically?
Something like this:
$args = array(
......
'category' => **current_category_for_this_language**
......
);
return get_posts($args);
Any ideas?
Use pll_get_term and filter by category. In this case '34' is my term ID (gotten by hovering the edit link of the term).
By the way as far as I know get_posts gets only posts in the current page language by default and it gets posts by default sorted by date DESC, so you could omit those from your query I think.
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 6,
'category' => pll_get_term(34)
);
return get_posts($args);
Sources
https://polylang.wordpress.com/documentation/documentation-for-developers/functions-reference/
pll_get_term
Returns the category (or post tag) translation
Usage:
pll_get_term($term_id, $slug);
‘$term_id’ => (required) id of the term you want the translation
‘$slug’ => (optional) 2-letters code of the language, defaults to current language
https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
Default Usage
<?php $args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 5, 'offset' => 0, 'category' => '', 'category_name' => '', 'orderby' => 'date', 'order' => 'DESC', 'include' => '', 'exclude' => '', 'meta_key' => '', 'meta_value' => '', 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_mime_type' => '', 'post_parent' => '', 'author' => '', 'author_name' => '', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'suppress_filters' => true ); $posts_array = get_posts( $args ); ?>
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