Filtering ‘Featured’ posts in a category page

  • I am trying to create customized category pages. At the top of each page, I’d like to have two posts which basically are featured posts. Currently on the home page, I have a condition where posts from the ‘Featured’ category show up. However I am trying to create a conditional statement that factors in both when viewing category pages.

    So for instance, I have Travel section which has a few child categories as well. I’d like to now pull posts from the Travel category and respective child categories, which are also filed under Featured.

    This is a sample of my code I use for the index at the moment.

    <?php $my_query1 = new WP_Query('showposts=2&category_name=featured'); ?>
<?php while ($my_query1->have_posts()) : $my_query1->the_post(); ?>
[post styling here]
<?php endwhile;?>

    Is it possible to start off with something like category_name=travel+hotels+reviews and then have some kind of sub-query to filter out the posts from those categories that also are filed under “Featured”?

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  • Hi,

    If you need to display the pasts from different categories, then you can use query by category: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Category_Parameters –
    $query = new WP_Query( array( 'cat' => '2,6,17,38' ) );
    OR
    $query = new WP_Query( array( 'category__in' => array( 2, 6 ) ) );

    It depends on whether the post will have only 1 category travel + hotels + reviews and Featured or the post should have both categories.

    Thread Starter bcw00

    (@bcwint00)

    @bestwebsoft Doesn’t really answer my question specifically. I already know how to filter by, but then where does the sub routine fit in to pull posts filed to the Featured category which also belongs to those?

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    There isn’t a possibility of a sub-routine like you imagine within the WP_Query class. You can simulate such behavior external to the class, but before we look at what that might entail, let’s try doing it all in one query. Setup a new WP_Query like in bestwebsoft’s second example using ‘category__in’. Determine the term ID for your featured class and use it in a similar ‘category__not_in’ argument added to the overall arguments array passed when instantiating WP_Query. If the ID for featured is 8 for example, then something like

    $query = new WP_Query( array( 
   'category__in' => array( 2, 6 ),
   'category__not_in' => array( 8 ),
 ) );
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