Title: [Category problem] Posts from some category
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# [Category problem] Posts from some category

 *  [RickyCro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickycro/)
 * (@rickycro)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-problem-posts-from-some-category/)
 * I want to make my page 3 shows the latest posts from the respective printed categories
   when I click on that category.
    I found a code that can only be fixed to determine
   the categories to be always the same as I do not need.
 * Now, when I click on the category menu above link to expel link
    [http://www.moja-stranica.com/?cat=3](http://www.moja-stranica.com/?cat=3)
   but it still shows me posts from these fixed categories, which was placed in 
   the Loop
 * Is there a possibility to load the above categories?
 *     ```
       <?php
       	$catquery = new WP_Query( 'cat=17&posts_per_page=3' );
       	while($catquery->have_posts()) : $catquery->the_post();
       ?>
       <div class="col span_1_of_3">
       		<?php if (has_post_thumbnail()) : ?>
       			<?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
       		<?php endif; ?>
       	<div class="box<?php echo $counter--; ?>">
       	<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2></a>
       	<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
       	<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><h3>>> Pročitaj više <<</h3></a>
       	</div>
       </div>
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [Frumph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frumph/)
 * (@frumph)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-problem-posts-from-some-category/#post-5394542)
 *     ```
       <?php
       if (is_category()) {
       	$theCatID = get_term_by( 'slug', $wp_query->query_vars['category_name'], 'category' );
       	if (!empty($theCatID))
       		$theCatID = $theCatID->term_id;
       	if (isset($wp_query->query_vars['cat'])) $theCatID = (int)$wp_query->query_vars['cat'];
       }
       	$catquery = new WP_Query( 'cat='.$theCatID.'&posts_per_page=3' );
       	while($catquery->have_posts()) : $catquery->the_post();
       ?>
       ```
   
 * I’m assuming you’re using the archive.php for this, otherwise say something.
 * If you add this bit of code to check the query_var’s for the ?(&)cat= and then
   have the wp_query use that catID it will use it for the query
 * Or, if anything you can see how it’s done in this example
 * ..writing from memory so you probably want to adjust that a little
 *  Thread Starter [RickyCro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickycro/)
 * (@rickycro)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-problem-posts-from-some-category/#post-5394551)
 * Thanks man.
 * This works.
 *  Thread Starter [RickyCro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickycro/)
 * (@rickycro)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-problem-posts-from-some-category/#post-5394564)
 * Hmm
 * how to do same thing for tags?
 *  [Frumph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frumph/)
 * (@frumph)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-problem-posts-from-some-category/#post-5394578)
 * This really has to be a case of #yourdoingitwrong
 * Please, tell me .. is it for the archive.php ? and your goal is to limit it to
   3 posts displayed at a time avoiding the settings -> reading of 10 at a time?
 * What’s the goal here
 *  Thread Starter [RickyCro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rickycro/)
 * (@rickycro)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-problem-posts-from-some-category/#post-5394581)
 * The first thing was to category.php
 *  [Frumph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frumph/)
 * (@frumph)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-problem-posts-from-some-category/#post-5394583)
 * You don’t need a loop. The loop is already created for you when you go to one
   of the archive.php category.php and taxonomy.php type template files that are
   called automatically
 * The ‘amount’ to display is handled in the settings -> reading
 * the archive.php can facilitate all of them under one roof. to which case you 
   can grab almost any archive.php from any theme and take a look at how it’s done
 * mine is here:
    [https://github.com/Frumph/comicpress/blob/master/archive.php](https://github.com/Frumph/comicpress/blob/master/archive.php)
 * Which is a bit more uhm, extravagant then most.

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