Show one post per subcategory

Resolved marissawells
(@marissawells)

17 years ago

I have a category called “Blogs.” Within that category, there are several subcategories. I would like to be able to pull only one post per subcategory without specifying the subcategories manually – mainly because more subcategories are going to be added as time goes on.

So does anyone know how I could achieve this? I know how to use multiple loops if I know and specify what the subcategory is, but not in a case like this where I just want to automatically find any category that’s a child of the blogs category…

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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(@michaelh)

Could use get_categories with the child_of= to get all the child categories then use that to retrieve one post for each category.

I didn’t test this but something like:

<?php
// in category template, get child categories of queried category and if there are child cats, get one post for each child
if ( is_category() ) {
$categories = get_categories('child_of='.get_query_var('cat'));
if ( $categories ) {
  foreach($categories as $category) {
      $posts=get_posts('showposts=1&amp;cat='. $category->term_id);
      if ($posts) {
        echo 'Category: <a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a>
 ';
        foreach($posts as $post) {
          setup_postdata($post); ?>
          <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

          <?php
        } // foreach($posts
      } // if ($posts
    } // foreach($categories
  } // if (categories
} // if (is_category
?>

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