Show only the most recent post from each category ordered by post date

  • Hello,

    I have tried a couple of plugins (Posts per cat & Recent Posts From Each Category) and a number of code snippets i have both written myself and seen in various forums but none do exactly what i need. The closest i have so far is here…

    <?php
// Lists category IDs we want on the homepage
$cat_args=array(
  'include' => '6,14,7,4231,30,4405,2346,11,3373,4344,4358,3453,31,10,4308,4232,3452',
   );
$categories=get_categories($cat_args);

// Loop through each category and get the most recent post
  foreach($categories as $category) {
    $args=array(
      'showposts' => 1,
      'category__in' => array($category->term_id),
      'caller_get_posts'=>1,
      'orderby' => 'post_date',
      'order' => 'DESC'
    );
    $posts=get_posts($args);

// Loop through each post and display the data
      if ($posts) {
      foreach($posts as $post) {
	  setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
	<div class="panel panel-default panel-show-box panel-<?php
$category = get_the_category();
echo $category[0]->slug;
?>-list">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" class="block-link">
		<div class="panel-body show-list">
  <img class="show-logo img-responsive" src="<?php echo $wpbtn_options['logos_dir'] . $btn_feature['logo-small']; ?>" alt="<?php echo $btn_feature['name']; ?>" />
          <?php  if (!is_page()){ ?>
          <span class="label label-<?php echo $labelStyle; ?> pull-right" title="<?php echo $postDate; ?>"><?php echo $releasedText; ?></span><strong><?php echo substr(get_the_title(), 0,49); ?><?php // the_ID(); ?></strong></br>
          <?php  } ?>
            <p class=""><?php echo substr(get_the_excerpt(), 0,115); ?>&hellip;</br>
            <?php if ($btn_feature['name'] == 'Review' || $btn_feature['name'] == 'The Blog') { ?>
            	<span class="label label-success label-as-badge">Read <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-book"></span></span>
            <?php } else { ?>
            	<span class="label label-success label-as-badge">Play <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-play"></span></span>
            <?php } ?>
            </p>
      		</div>
      		</a>
	</div>
</div>
<?php
        } // foreach($posts
      } // if ($posts
    } // foreach($categories
?>

    This comes close but the only thing missing is i cannot get the post to appear in posts order. If i move the orderby and order to the $cat_args=array section this simply organises by the date the category was created. Not the posts inside.

    I expect what i need to do is pull in the post array and organise by post_date but i just can’t work out what i need to do.

    Any ideas?

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  • I’d do it this way:

    -pull down IDs and filtered categories of all posts in descending order by date, put them in array A
    -prepare an array B with keys of filtered categories and null values
    -cycle down the A array. Let’s say ID=190 has cat=15. Look the value of key=15 of B array. If empty fill with ID=190. If not empty just skip.
    -Once B array is full, use the values to pull down the posts by ID in descending order by date and loop them.

    Hope it helps

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