Displaying posts assigned to ANY 2 categories

  • I’m redesigning my blog and I’d like to display a list (or just the latest) post that is assigned to multiple categories.

    I know about the category__and function, but so far as I can tell it requires you to specify which categories your post must belong to (e.g., show posts in categories 2 and 6).

    What’d I’d like to do is show any posts that belong to more than one category, but I can’t find anything on how to do this in the codex or the forums.

    Is there a way to use category__and to ask for a list of all posts assigned to multiple categories?

    Is there another function that would do this instead?

    Alternatively, what might be the best way to go about writing a hack to do this?

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  • Thread Starter wideaperture

    (@wideaperture)

    p.s. I should mention that I’d like this list to go on the homepage, not a category archive – though a way to do that would be interesting, too.

    Hy,

    same problem here, only I’m looking for solution to show those posts in some category.

    Actually, let say,
    In category 5 I want to show post which belong to category 3 and 5.
    Or I can say…
    show post which belong to CURRENT CATEGORY and CATEGORY 5.

    Thanks for any help in advance.
    Andrija

    Anyone?

    In fact, is it possible to do something like that?

    Please……

    See here for full text: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

    Category Parameters

    Show posts only belonging to certain categories.

    * cat
    * category_name
    * category__and
    * category__in
    * category__not_in

    Show One Category by ID

    Display posts from only one category ID (and any children of that category):

    query_posts(‘cat=4’);

    Show One Category by Name

    Display posts from only one category by name:

    query_posts(‘category_name=Staff Home’);

    Show Several Categories by ID

    Display posts from several specific category IDs:

    query_posts(‘cat=2,6,17,38’);

    Exclude Posts Belonging to Only One Category

    Show all posts except those from a category by prefixing its ID with a ‘-‘ (minus) sign.

    query_posts(‘cat=-3’);

    This excludes any post that belongs to category 3.

    Multiple Category Handling

    Display posts that are in multiple categories. This shows posts that are in both categories 2 and 6:

    query_posts(array(‘category__and’ => array(2,6)));

    To display posts from either category 2 OR 6, you could use cat as mentioned above, or by using category__in (note this does not show posts from any children of these categories):

    query_posts(array(‘category__in’ => array(2,6)));

    You can also exclude multiple categories this way:

    query_posts(array(‘category__not_in’ => array(2,6)));

    Thank You VERY VERY MUCH monkeymynd!
    I have looked before that url You suggest me but then I didn’t find answer. Now I did!!! ?? Thanks once again.

    My questions was,
    How to show 1 post which belong to both:
    CURRENT Category + some other category?

    SOLUTION :
    =============================================================
    1. QUERY in category.php show 1 post which belong to both:
    current category + category 12 (ID).
    =============================================================
    <?php query_posts(array(‘showposts’ => 1, ‘category__and’ => array($cat,12))); ?>

    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    <div class=”post”>
    bla bla bla … define how is that post shown.
    </div>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

    =============================================================
    And below that query I have another query->
    =============================================================
    2. QUERY in category.php show all other posts which belong
    to current category as usually.
    =============================================================

    <?php
    $categoryvariable=$cat;
    $queryCAT= ‘cat=’ . $categoryvariable. ‘&orderby=date&order=ASC’;
    query_posts($queryCAT); ?>
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue;
    update_post_caches($posts); ?>

    <div class=”post”>
    bla bla bla … define how is that post shown.
    </div>

    <?php endwhile; ?>
    =============================================================

    enjoy ??

    P.S. sorry on my bad English

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