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peirix

I'm building my first WordPress site, and The Loop is giving me a bit of a headache. I've read through the official document from WordPress, but nothing good came of it.

What I'm looking to do is get 4 posts from each category. I have an accordion-like layout, so each "tab" will show 4 posts from their respective category. So far I can only seem to show the 10 most recent posts, which isn't any good, as I might do 5 posts in a row in one category, and so on...

Also, if you have any good hints on how I could go about doing the splitting of posts depending on their category, that would be helpful. Right now, I'm using jQuery to pick out posts with class of "category-catName", and moving them to the correct place.


<div id=\"wrapper\">
  <div id=\"category1\">
    <h1>Category 1 Header</h1>
  </div>
  <div id=\"category2\">
    <h1>Category 2 Header</h1>
  </div>
  ...
</div>

Then getting all posts, picking out posts depening on their category, and placing them in their category-div, under the header.

mattvot

<?php $recent = new WP_Query(\"cat=3&showposts=1\"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
				<h2><a href=\"<?php the_permalink() ?>\" rel=\"bookmark\"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<?php the_content(__('Read the story &raquo;'));?><div style=\"clear:both;\"></div>
				<?php endwhile; ?>

cat=3

Category ID number

showposts=

Number of posts to show

The rest of the code is optional

davesgonebananas

Just saw this post. The tricky thing is in a standard query_posts call you can only specify the max. number of posts to show, not the number of posts per category. To get around this we have to make a seperate query for each category.

The following snippet is an example:

<?php
	$categories = get_categories(\"hierarchical=0&hide_empty=true\");
	$showposts = 4; // the number of posts per category to showposts
	
	echo \"<ul>\";
	foreach ($categories as $category) {
		echo \"<li class=\\"category-$category->term_id\\">\";
		echo \"<h2>$category->name</h2>\";
		echo \"<ul>\";
	
	$category_posts = new WP_Query(\"cat=$category->term_id&showposts=$showposts&published=true\");
		while ($category_posts->have_posts() ) {
			$category_posts->the_post();

			echo \"<li>\";
			the_title();  // output the post here using the_content, the_permalink, etc...
			echo \"</li>\";
		}

		echo \"</ul>\n\";
	}

	echo \"</ul>\";
?>

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