Title: adding functionality before loop
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# adding functionality before loop

 *  [saladaze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saladaze/)
 * (@saladaze)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-functionality-before-loop/)
 * I am trying to get something to happen before the loop runs inside ALM. For example,
   I am querying all posts in ‘archive’ and im querying 6 at a time. Before the 
   loop runs, I want to echo the sub category every six are in. For now I just say‘
   title’. Any way to add a filter to do this in $alm_query ?
 *     ```
       $archive = new WP_Query( $archiveposts );
       	if ( have_posts() ) {
       		echo 'title';
       		while ( $archive->have_posts() ) : $archive->the_post();
       			//Repeater
       		endwhile;
       	}
       	wp_reset_postdata();
       ```
   
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 *  Plugin Author [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/)
 * (@dcooney)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-functionality-before-loop/#post-5662937)
 * No, we do not have filters available do handle this.
 * My suggestion would be to create a custom template and loop your sub categories.
 * Category Loop
    Title Ajax load More Title Ajax load More Title Ajax load More
   END Loop

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## Tags

 * [ALM](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alm/)
 * [if](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/if/)
 * [wpquery](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wpquery/)

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 * Last reply from: [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-functionality-before-loop/#post-5662937)
 * Status: not resolved