Assigning a specific class per category and show its last post

  • Resolved psntr

    (@psntr)


    8 years, 12 months ago

    Dear wordpress community,

    I’m digging a bit through WordPress for few weeks now, trying to build my own theme. While trying to solve this issue, I bump on severals solution that might work, but I want to do it in the cleanest way possible.

    Basically I modifying my index.php, and now it has 3 columns and right after it a 4 columns, what I try to achieve seems quite easy… But, how to assign each columns a specific category and displaying only 1 recent post? 

    <div class="my-first-column">
query_posts(array( 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'category' => 1))
// loop
while(have_posts()) {
  the_post();
  the_title(); // your custom-post-type post's title
  the_content(); // // your custom-post-type post's content
}
wp_reset_query() // reset the query
</div>

<div class="my-second-column">
query_posts(array( 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'category' => 2))
// loop
while(have_posts()) {
  the_post();
  the_title(); // your custom-post-type post's title
  the_content(); // // your custom-post-type post's content
}
wp_reset_query() // reset the query
</div>

<div class="my-third-column">
query_posts(array( 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'category' => 3))
// loop
while(have_posts()) {
  the_post();
  the_title(); // your custom-post-type post's title
  the_content(); // // your custom-post-type post's content
}
wp_reset_query() // reset the query
</div>

    and so on and so on. But then it seems a bit repetitive and maybe there would been a more reliable solution for that…

    Thank you for your time.

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  • <?php

$cat_args = array(
    'orderby' => 'name',
    'order' => 'ASC'
);
$categories = get_categories($cat_args);
$i = 0;

foreach ($categories as $category) {
    $args = array(
        'showposts' => 1,
        'category__in' => array($category->term_id),
        'caller_get_posts' => 1
    );
    $posts = get_posts($args);
    if ($posts) {
        foreach ($posts as $post) {
            ?>
            <div class="my-<?php echo $i; ?>-column"> // to change classes
                <?php
                setup_postdata($post);
                the_title(); // your custom-post-type post's title
                the_content(); // // your custom-post-type post's content
                ?>
            </div>
        <?php
        } // foreach - $posts
    } // if
    $i++;
} // foreach
?>
    Thread Starter psntr

    (@psntr)

    Thank that’s solution that is clever, I did it and it worked.

    Thank you!

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