How do I get 3 categories to intermix? WordPress
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Suppose I have 3 categories:
Lakewood High School
Athens High School
Scottsville High School
Suppose, in the sidebar, that I want show the 7 most recent posts from each category, 21 headlines in all, but it is very important that the items intermix like this:
Lakewood High School
Athens High School
Scottsville High School
Lakewood High School
Athens High School
Scottsville High School
Lakewood High School
Athens High School
Scottsville High School
Lakewood High School
Athens High School
Scottsville High School
Lakewood High School
Athens High School
Scottsville High School
Lakewood High School
Athens High School
Scottsville High School
Lakewood High School
Athens High School
Scottsville High School
What kind of code would I use for this?
Answers (3)
Andrzej answers:
Try this:
<?php
$my_cats = array( 1, 2, 3 );
$my_maxposts = 7;
foreach ( $my_cats as $cat_id ) {
query_posts('cat=' . $cat_id . '&posts_per_page='. $my_maxposts );
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
ob_start();
?><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li><?php
$my_results[$cat_id][] = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
}
for ( $i = 0; $i < $my_maxposts; $i ++ ) {
?><ul><?php
foreach ( $my_cats as $cat_id ) {
echo $my_results[ $cat_id ][ $i ];
}
?></ul><?php
}
?>
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Andrzej comments:
In case you wanna view also the excerpts after these headlines, you can try this:
<?php
$my_cats = array( 3, 4, 5 ); // define your category IDs here
$my_maxposts = 7; // you can switch the number of last posts here
foreach ( $my_cats as $cat_id ) {
query_posts('cat=' . $cat_id . '&posts_per_page='. $my_maxposts );
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
ob_start();
?>
<li>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>
</li>
<?php
$my_results[$cat_id][] = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
}
for ( $i = 0; $i < $my_maxposts; $i ++ ) {
?><ul><?php
foreach ( $my_cats as $cat_id ) {
echo $my_results[ $cat_id ][ $i ];
}
?></ul><?php
}
?>
Oleg Butuzov answers:
<?php
/*
Getting the categories
*/
// categories
$catsArray = array('1','2','3');
// prepare variable to get data
$result = array();
// number of poststs to retrive
$counter = 3;
foreach($catsArray as $cat){
query_posts(array('cat' => $cat, 'posts_per_page' => $counter, 'showposts' => $counter));
if (count($wp_query->posts) > 0){
foreach($wp_query->posts as $key=>$_post){
$results[$key][$cat] = $_post;
}
}
wp_reset_query();
}
/*
Retriving the category
*/
foreach($results as $key=>$categories){
echo '<ul>';
foreach($categories as $categoryId=>$post){
$currentCategory = get_category($categoryId);
?>
<li>
<h3><? echo $currentCategory->cat_name;?></h3>
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID) ?>"><?php echo apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title); ?></a>
/*
You also can use
echo apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content);
to retrive content
------------
echo apply_filters('the_excerpt', $post->post_excerpt);
to retrive content
*/
</li>
<?
}
echo '</ul>';
}
wp_reset_query();
?>
Monster Coder answers:
<?php
$cats = array('1','2','3'); //enter your 3 category IDs
$num_blocks=7;
$results =array();
foreach ($cats as $cat){
query_posts(array('cat'=>$cat,'posts_per_page'=>$num_blocks));
$i=0;
while (have_posts()): the_post();
if($i<=$num_blocks){
$results[$i][] = get_the_ID();
}
$i++;
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
}
foreach ($results as $result){
query_posts(array('post__in'=>$result));
while (have_posts()): the_post();
?>
<div class="cats">
<li>
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<!-- <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div> -->
</li>
</div>
<?php
endwhile;
echo '<hr />';
wp_reset_query();
}
?>