sorting results by category ID within date

Hey there, can I see the code you’re using to query the posts? We can probably edit that to do what you want.

this gets me the posts of the day.

$today = getdate();
query_posts(‘year=’ .$today[“year”] .’&monthnum=’ .$today[“mon”] .’&day=’ .$today[“mday”] );

cats would be 17,18,19,20

My workaround for now was to duplicate the ‘show post’ code 4 times (yeah, kludge) by appending the &cat=17 to each query.

thanks folks!

Something like this: https://wordpress.pastebin.com/2TaXqEEM should work.

What we do there is first we get the categories ordered by id, ascending:

$cat_args=array(
  'orderby' => 'ID',
  'order' => 'ASC'
  'include'=>'17,18,19,20',
   );
$categories=get_categories($cat_args);

then, we loop trought the categories, calling the posts inside the category that fit your criteria (posts from today, in this case):

foreach($categories as $category) {
	$args=array(
    	'showposts' => -1,
      	'category__in' => array($category->term_id),
      	'caller_get_posts'=>1,
      	'year'=>$today["year"],
      	'monthnum='=>$today["mon"],
      	'&day='=>$today["mday"]
    );
    $posts=get_posts($args);

For each post that fills the criteria, we show it. In the code, the divs names and whatnot are taken from the default theme.

Hope that helps.