Calling WP_Query within a foreach loop

  • Resolved gregponchak

    (@gregponchak)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    Hi guys,
    I have been struggling to figure this out for a few hours now and cannot get anywhere.

    Basically, what I want this code to do is to list all of the categories and posts within them with content separated by categories.

    Here is my code:

    $categories=get_categories('orderby=name');
  		foreach ($categories as $cat) {
			$the_query = new WP_Query('category_name='.$cat->cat_name);
			while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();
				echo "<div class=\"post\">";
				echo "<b>";
				echo "<a href=\"";
				the_permalink();
				echo "\">";
				the_title();
				echo "</a>";
				echo "&mdash;";
				the_time('M j, Y');
				echo "</b>";
				echo "<div class=\"content\">";
				the_content('&mdash;');
				echo "</div>";
				echo "</div>";
			endwhile;
  		}

    The script is working (somewhat). It lists the categories, but only displays the first post in each category. I want all of them to be displayed. Also, my blog posts per page is set to 50.

    I haven’t really used WP_Query before (this is probably apparent to those who have), so any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Greg

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  • Not tested but what about:

    $categories=get_categories('orderby=name');
foreach ($categories as $cat) {
	$the_query = new WP_Query('posts_per_page=-1&category_name='.$cat->cat_name);
	while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();
		echo '<div class="post">';
		echo '<strong><a href="' . the_permalink() .">' . the_title() . '</a>&mdash;' . the_time('M j, Y') . echo '</strong>';
		echo '<div class="content">';
		the_content('&mdash;');
		echo '</div></div>;
	endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();

    Bonjour Greg, bonjour Esmi,

    did you find your solution?
    Would you help me to do the same thing with years instead of categories?
    I also want the articles to be in alphabetical order within each year.

    The result I need is:
    Category Name (as title of my page)
    Year 2010
    Author A
    Author B
    Author C
    Year 2009
    Author A
    Author B
    Author C

    Now it looks like this: https://valentine-meunier.de/wordpress/?cat=13

    I’ve been searching for a long time but I can’t find the way to get back the year as a variable.
    I hope it will interest someone .
    Merci!

    Bocq – please start another thread with that question.

    I’ll do it right now, Michael.

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