Divide Posts In Sections Of Four

  • Hi everyone, I’m having problems beyond my PHP skills trying to accomplish something with WordPress and I hope one of the forum members can help me out by offering me some sample code or an article.

    I’m trying to display a few custom fields for every post under a category. I’m using jCarouselLite to display a slider with 4 posts at a time.

    I’m having trouble working the logic to make this work. I need to put 4 posts inside every list item. So I need to do this:

    <ul>
<li>
- div with post 1 info
- div with post 2 info
- div with post 3 info
- div with post 4 info
</li>
<li>
- div with post 5 info
- div with post 6 info
- div with post 7 info
</li>
</ul>

    Another problem that arises is that I need to know how many li I will need to have depending on how many posts that category has.

    If anyone could help me, I would be forever in debt to you!
    Thanks for reading….

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  • You don’t need to figure out how many li you need in advance. The general code would go something like this

    $postPerGroup=4;
$currentCount=0;

$output='';
foreach ($posts as $post) {
  if ( ( $currentCount % $postPerGroup ) == 0 ) $output.='<li>';
  $output.=your_function_to_get_the_post_info();
  $currentCount++;
  if ( ( $currentCount % $postPerGroup ) == 0 ) $output.='</li>';
}

echo '<ul>', $output, '</ul>';

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