Title: Query recent posts
Last modified: May 8, 2025

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# Query recent posts

 *  [Tarahlynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tarahlynn/)
 * (@tarahlynn)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-recent-posts/)
 * Hey guys so currently on my homepage I have it setup so it first shows the most
   recent 10 posts (of all categories) and then that’s followed by the most recent
   10 posts of each individual category.
 * But I want to add one more thing and cant figure out how to do it. I want to 
   first show the 1 most recent post from only specific categories and then followed
   by the rest as it already is. Am I asking too much lol Here’s the code (Thank
   you guys so much in advance!):
 *     ```wp-block-code
       <?php      $args = array(       'posts_per_page' => 10,    );    $customQuery = new WP_Query( $args );     if ( $customQuery->have_posts()) {       echo '<div class="all-cats">';        while ( $customQuery->have_posts()) : $customQuery->the_post(); ?><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>              <div id="humbnail">                <?php                       if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {                        the_post_thumbnail();                      }                       ?>                      </div>                      <?php the_content('Read More »'); ?>    <?php        endwhile;      echo '       </div>    </div>    <div id="posts_clear">    <div id="posts_over"><!-- .all-cats -->';       } //endif    $allcats = get_categories('child_of='.get_query_var('cat'));     foreach ($allcats as $cat) :    $args = array(    'posts_per_page' => 10, // max number of post per category    'category__in' => array($cat->term_id)    );    $customInCatQuery = new WP_Query($args);     if ($customInCatQuery->have_posts()) :     echo '<div>';    echo '<div id="posts-header-container"><h1><span>Recently from '.$cat->name.'</span></h1></div>';    echo '';        while ($customInCatQuery->have_posts()) : $customInCatQuery->the_post(); ?><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>    <div id="humbnail">                <?php                       if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {                        the_post_thumbnail();                      }                       ?>            </div>                      <?php the_content('Read More »'); ?> <?phpendwhile; echo '</div>'; ?><?php else : echo 'No post published in:'.$cat->name;                endif; wp_reset_query();endforeach; ?>
       ```
   
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 *  [Dillon Lanier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dillonlanier/)
 * (@dillonlanier)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-recent-posts/#post-18458686)
 * Where are you getting stuck? You should be able to do a similar loop to the last
   one that goes through each category and shows the 10 most recent for each category.
   The modifications would be:
    - posts per page is 1 instead of 10
    - title outside the foreach loop
    - place at top of the file
 * So, copy all the code from ‘$allcats = get_categories(‘child_of=’.get_query_var(‘
   cat’));’ to the bottom, put it at the top, move the header outside the foreach
   loop, and change 10 to 1. This should get you pretty close, though you very possibly
   may need to tweak things.
 *  [bvbaked](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bvbaked/)
 * (@bvbaked)
 * [1 year ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-recent-posts/#post-18459216)
 * A couple of things to note here:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       $allcats = get_categories('child_of='.get_query_var('cat')); 
       ```
   
 * This is expecting a query parameter to narrow down your categories by a parent,
   which I’m not quite sure you’re looking to do. The url in this case would look
   like [http://www.grandmashousediy.com/?cat=5](http://www.grandmashousediy.com/?cat=5)
   that actually pushes you to the category page, so you may want to just remove
   the string inside as it is functioning as you expect already – it gets all categories,
   then loops through each to get the 10 most recent to display
 * For the next ask of displaying the most recent only from specific categories:
   
   That depends on how you’d like to select them. If you have the categories in 
   mind and that won’t change, you can write another query similar to what you have
   already but only choosing certain ids.
 * Something like
 *     ```wp-block-code
       $args = [ 'taxonomy' => 'category', 'include' => [ 3, 4, 5 ] ];$categories_to_show = get_terms( $args );
       ```
   
 * Repeat the loop on your $customInCatQuery loop replacing it with the result here
   and posts_per_page with 1 instead of 10 – this would then be giving you the first
   in each of those categories.
 * Place that where you’d want the output, and I think you’re good.
 * Let me know if I misunderstood though 🙂
 *  [WP SITES](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpresssites/)
 * (@wordpresssites)
 * [12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-recent-posts/#post-18472342)
 *     ```wp-block-code
       $category_ids = array(4, 7, 10); // Replace with your desired category IDs    foreach ( $category_ids as $cat_id ) {        $args = array(            'post_type'      => 'post',            'posts_per_page' => 1,            'orderby'        => 'date',            'order'          => 'DESC',            'cat'            => $cat_id,        );        $query = new WP_Query( $args );        if ( $query->have_posts() ) {            while ( $query->have_posts() ) {                $query->the_post();                echo '<h3>Category: ' . get_cat_name( $cat_id ) . '</h3>';                echo '<h2><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a></h2>';            }            wp_reset_postdata();        }    }
       ```
   

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