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1. noyz319
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   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi guys, i'm trying to get my sidebar to display the latest 3 posts in each of a few select parent categories. Along with the newest 3 posts i would like the corresponding child category of each of these posts to display as well.

   To make that clearer, what i want is this:

   FEATURES
   - MUSIC > New Classics
   - ART > The Originals
   - PEOPLE > Mikhail Gorbachev

   What i don't want is:

   FEATURES
   - FEATURES > MUSIC > New Classics
   - FEATURES > ART > The Originals
   - FEATURES > PEOPLE > Mikhail Gorbachev

   This is the code i have so far. I've also tried
   echo single_cat_title(); but that only gets me another thing i don't want,this:

   FEATURES
   - FEATURES > New Classics
   - FEATURES > The Originals
   - FEATURES > Mikhail Gorbachev

   
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<div class="smaller">
<?php
// Sorted by Date
{
$posts = query_posts('category_name=features&order=desc&posts_per_page=3');
}
?>
<div class="title"><a href="http://formatmag.com/features"><strong> Features</strong><?php get_cat_icon('cat=2'); ?></a></div>
<ul>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li>
<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<?php the_category(' > ') ?> > <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
</div>
</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
</div>
<?php rewind_posts(); ?>


   I'm hoping there's an easy way to make the_category only show the children of parent cat. Any ideas? I've been stumped on this all week.

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