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1. equaldesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am using the following code to get the child categories of the category 7:

   <?php $descendants = get_categories(array('child_of' => 7)); ?>
   <?php foreach ($descendants as $child) { ?>
   //do stuff
   <?php } ?>

   What I need is for each child category, to then query the posts of that category and display the title of the three newest posts in that child category - i.e. all this would happen in the 'do stuff' part.

   Anybody any ideas?
   Thanks in anticipation!

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi

   I didn't test the code below but it will be close, if not exact

   <?php $descendants = get_categories(array('child_of' => 7)); ?>
   <?php foreach ($descendants as $child) { ?>
          $catPosts = new WP_Query();
          $catPosts->query("showposts=3&cat=$child->term_id"); ?>
          <ul>
          <?php while ($catPosts->have_posts()) : $catPosts->the_post(); ?>
           <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"<?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
         <?php endwhile; ?>
         </ul>
   <?php } ?>

3. equaldesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for that stvwlf it was almost as required, but thanks to that code I was able to adjust slightly to get what I required which is below:

   <?php $descendants = get_categories(array('child_of' => 7)); ?>
   <?php foreach ($descendants as $child) { ?>
   <?php $catPosts = new WP_Query(); $catPosts->query("showposts=3&cat=$child->term_id"); ?>
   <h2><?php echo $child->cat_name; ?></h2>
   <?php while ($catPosts->have_posts()) : $catPosts->the_post(); ?>
   <ul>
   <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   </ul>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
   <?php } ?>

4. grrlfriend
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   equaldesign,
   Thank you for sharing your solution - it was EXACTLY what I needed. I've been trying to wrangle the PHP and have come close to a solution but this totally did the trick.

   Thanks again!

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