List sub categories with first 3 posts

  • hinch

    (@hinch)


    17 years, 10 months ago

    I wish to create a ‘grid’ showing all my sub-categories of a category and the top three posts for each.

    Basically I just need this architecture:

    – sub-category name
    – post 1
    – post 2
    – post 3
    – sub-category name
    – post 1
    – post 2
    – post 3
    – sub-category name
    – post 1
    – post 2
    – post 3

    etc.

    I’m trying to make a new function from wp_list_cats that can include get_posts, or is there a better way?

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  • Thread Starter hinch

    (@hinch)

    17 years, 10 months ago

    Sorry I forgot to add what I currently have – It works okay but it seems messy:

    function list_posts() {
 $ch = get_query_var('cat');
 $cat_ids = get_all_category_ids("child_of=$ch");
 foreach ( $cat_ids as $cat_id ) {
 ?>

<h4><?php echo get_cat_name($cat_id); ?></h4>
<ul>
 <?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts("numberposts=3&offset=1&category=$cat_id");
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
 ?>
    <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); echo "- $cat_id"; ?></a></li>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
   <li>More...</li>
 </ul>
 <?php
 }
}
?>
    Thread Starter hinch

    (@hinch)

    17 years, 10 months ago

    Since I can’t edit the post above now (is only one edit allowed?) I have actually got code I am happy with – I’d be interested to know your thoughts on it:

    <?php
$parent = get_query_var('cat');
$categories = get_categories("orderby=id&show_count=1&hide_empty=0&child_of=$parent");
foreach ($categories as $cat) {
echo '<h4><a href="'.$cat->category_nicename.'">'.$cat->cat_name."</a></h4>\n";

$cid = $cat->cat_ID;

  echo "<ul>\n";

  global $post;
  $myposts = get_posts("numberposts=3&offset=0&category=$cid");
  foreach($myposts as $post) :

   echo '<li><a href="'; the_permalink(); echo '">'; the_title(); echo "</a></li>\n";

  endforeach;

  echo '
   <li><a href="' . get_category_link($cid) . "\">More...</a></li>
  </ul>\n\n";

}
?>
    Galyn

    (@galyn)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    Hinch, I’m looking to do this exact same thing on one of my websites. How’d this work out for you? Did you have to create a new function in “theme functions” to do this?

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