Displaying posts from single category using custom query

[sbrody]

Hi - I've created a custom query to display category-specific blog posts. It needs to work on every category page, so I need to be able to pull through the category archive page title as a variable to use in the query. But I just can't get it to work - it just pulls all my posts. Here is my code so far - can anyone help? Thanks!

function this_cat() {
    $categorypage = single_cat_title();
    
    return $categorypage;
}
echo this_cat();

remove_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');
add_action('genesis_loop', 'srl_category_loop');
    function srl_category_loop() {
        
        $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'post',
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'post_count' => '-1',
            'category_name' => this_cat()
        );
        $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
        
        // The Loop
        if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
            echo '<div id="macy-container">';
            while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
                echo this_cat();
                $the_query->the_post();
                $tags = get_the_tags();
                if ((!empty ($tags)) && ($tags[0]->name == 'Photo')):
                    echo '<div class="grid-item photo">';
                else: 
                echo '<div class="grid-item">';
                endif;
                echo the_post_thumbnail();
                echo '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . '<h2>' . get_the_title() . '</h2>' . '</a>';
                    $category = get_the_category();
                    if ( !empty($category) ): 
                    echo '<div class="post-cat">' . esc_html($category[0]->name) . '</div>';
                    endif; ?>
                <div class="overlay"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">Read</a></div>
            <?php echo '</div>';
            }
            echo '</div>';
        } else {
            // no posts found
        }
        /* Restore original Post Data */
        wp_reset_postdata();
   }

 genesis(); 

[Brad Dalton]

What did you name the file?

Also, what are you trying to do?

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