Show category name once PHP

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    (@modsuperstar)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    I am trying to build a restaurant menu structure as a single page, organized by category. I currently have it setup to display all the entries on one page, in groups according to the category. The only thing I haven’t been able to figure out it how to get the category title to only display once. Obviously if I put it in the loop it shows with each entry.

    I’ve found this is the code I have so far 

    <?php if (is_page(menu)) { ?>

<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".get_cat_id('menu')."&showposts=50");
while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>

<?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
    echo $category->cat_name . ' ';
} ?>

			<div id="post-<?php the_ID() ?>" class="<?php sandbox_post_class() ?>">
				<h2 class="entry-title"><?php the_title() ?></h2>
				<div class="entry-content">
<?php the_content() ?>
<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'sandbox' ) . '&after=</div>') ?>
<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'sandbox' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ) ?>
				</div>
			</div><!-- .post -->
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php } ?>

    Now I was looking at his page about multiple loops https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops_in_Action but I can’t figure out how I would go about getting that concept to function with what I’m currently working with. I’m not a PHP guy, so I’m just trying to combine parts here and hope I can get it working.

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  • Here’s a different way to get there:

    <?php
//for each category, show 3 posts
$cat_args=array(
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC'
   );
$categories=get_categories($cat_args);
  foreach($categories as $category) {
    $args=array(
      'showposts' => 3,
      'category__in' => array($category->term_id),
      'caller_get_posts'=>1
    );
    $posts=get_posts($args);
      if ($posts) {
        echo '<p>Category: <a href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a> </p> ';
        foreach($posts as $post) {
          setup_postdata($post); ?>
          <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
          <?php
        } // foreach($posts
      } // if ($posts
    } // foreach($categories
?>
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    (@modsuperstar)

    That works perfectly. Thank you very much, greatly appreciated.

    This is great. I was wondering if its possible to grab the images from the posts as well. I am currently using Justin Tadlock’s get_image script/plugin but its not grabbing anything. Ermm…im not really a php coder, really appreciate the help. Tks!

    How could I modify this so that instead of just displaying 3 posts it displays them all?

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