Title: Query multiple custom posts
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Query multiple custom posts

 *  [studiobarn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/studiobarn/)
 * (@studiobarn)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-multiple-custom-posts/)
 * Hi There
 * Trying to work out the best way to achieve the following:
 * I have 5 Custom post types. I would like to query all of these and display them
   in a grid. The grid will show one of each custom post type in a row, then repeat.
 * Custom post types A, B, C, D, E
 * Grid : A B C D E A B C D E A B C D E
 * How can I achieve this?
 * Thanks

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 *  [Howdy_McGee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/howdy_mcgee/)
 * (@howdy_mcgee)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-multiple-custom-posts/#post-7587762)
 * Without playing with the SQL `posts_where` hook I don’t believe there’s anything
   built in to make things easy. Here’s something I put together but I haven’t tested
   it at all – lemme know if you run into issues:
 *     ```
       $query = new WP_Query( array(
       	'post_types'		=> array( 'cpt1', 'cpt2', 'cpt3' ),
       	'posts_per_page'	=> -1,
       ) );
   
       if( $query->have_posts() ) {
       	$post_types = array();
       	$tmp_posts  = array();
   
       	foreach( $query->posts as $post_obj ) {
       		$post_types[ $post_obj->post_type ][] = $post_obj;
       	}
   
       	$num_types = count( $post_types );
   
       	for( $i = 0, $x = 0; $i < $query->post_count; $i++, $x++ ) {
       		if( $x == $num_types ) {
       			$x = 0;
       		}
   
       		if( ! empty( $post_types[ $x ] ) {
       			$tmp_posts[] = array_shift( $post_types[ $x ] );
       		}
       	}
   
       	$query->posts = $tmp_posts;
       }
       ```
   

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