Customize recent.php to limit thumbnails by category

[Sandra]

Hello -

I would like to add a set of thumbnails at the top of my category.php page to show only images from the current category.

referencing viewtopic.php?f=32&t=6442#p32301

I have done the following:

Created a file called recent-cat.php as follows:

<div id="photos-cat">
      
   <h3>This collection</h3>
   <?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".$image_cat."&showposts=50"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
   [img]<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, [/img]" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />            
   <?php endwhile; ?>
      
</div>

In category.php, added the following BEFORE the start of the loop:

<?php /* Template Name: Exhibits
*/ ?> 

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">

<?php
$category = get_the_category();
$image_cat=$category[0]->cat_ID;
?>

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/recent-cat.php");?>

	<div class="contentleft">

<?php $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts($query_string ."&showposts=50&paged=$page"); ?>

Created a #photos-cat { style

They layout looks fine but all the thumbnails are showing and not filtering for the current category.

Example is at http://doughaines.vinyltangerine.com/in ... abstracts/

Any advice as to what I missed would be greatly appreciated.

Best,
sandra