Title: Posts from certain categories
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Posts from certain categories

 *  [Ziyphr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziyphr/)
 * (@ziyphr)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-from-certain-categories/)
 * Hi,
 * Everything is going great with WP so far but I have 1 problem. I want 2 columns,
   the first to be all one category, which I’ve done. The second column should be
   the 8 most recent articles from 2 categories.
 * Col 1 = Cat1 (done)
    Col 2 = Cat2,Cat3 (8 most recent)
 * I’ve been looking at get_posts() but I’m not sure if this can be done with multiple
   categories?

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 *  Thread Starter [Ziyphr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziyphr/)
 * (@ziyphr)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-from-certain-categories/#post-600897)
 * Maybe I’m not being clear enough I’d like a single merged list of 8 items from
   2 specific categories, ordered by date.
 * I’m sure others must have attempted such a thing before.
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-from-certain-categories/#post-600900)
 * Before you get into get posts you need to consult the Codex on multiple loops.
 *  Thread Starter [Ziyphr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziyphr/)
 * (@ziyphr)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-from-certain-categories/#post-600906)
 * I think it was actually more simple than I expected. Turns out you only need 
   to use
 * `query_posts('showposts=8&cat=2,3');`
 * What got me was that you should only write ‘cat’, not ‘category’, which is what
   get_posts() used.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Ziyphr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ziyphr/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-from-certain-categories/#post-600906)
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