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1. gillsans
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hi All,

   I have a custom template for my homepage and I want to display 2 separate categories from my posts. The categories I created are "Blog" and "News".

   I want to display a summary (or excerpt?) of the 3 most recent posts for each specific category.

   Whats the best way to do this? Here is a link to a screenshot:

   http://architexture.ca/NT/screenshot.png

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Learning about using multiple Loops is the best way.

3. gillsans
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks Moshu, I managed to put a solution together that worked:

   <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   <!-- If the post is in the category we want to exclude, we simply pass to the next post. -->
   <?php if (in_category('6')) continue; ?>
   <div class="post">
       <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
       <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></small>
       <?php
   	$strings = preg_split('/(\.|!|\?)\s/', strip_tags($post->post_content), 2, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
   	echo apply_filters('the_content', $strings[0] .  $strings[1]);
       ?>
   </div><!-- closes the first div box -->
   <?php endwhile; else: ?>
       <p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
    <?php endif; ?>

4. gillsans
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Now I just need to find out how to limit the output to 3 posts.

5. gillsans
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   <?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=Blog&showposts=3');
     		while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
     		$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>
       <div class="post">
     		<?php //the_permalink(); ?><?php //the_title(); ?>
    		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></a>
     		<?php
   			$strings = preg_split('/(\.|!|\?)\s/', strip_tags($post->post_content), 2, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
   			echo apply_filters('the_excerpt', $strings[0] .  $strings[1]);
   		?>
   	</div><!-- closes the first div box -->
     <?php endwhile; ?>
       <!-- Do other stuff... -->
     <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
     if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>
      <!-- Do stuff... -->
     <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

6. gillsans
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   sorry about the indenting

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