Jake Jackson | 05/20/10 at 8:00pm | Edit

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Last edited:
05/25/10
10:29pm

Andrzej Zglobica says:

Try this:

<?php

$my_cats = array( 1, 2, 3 );

$my_maxposts = 7;

foreach ( $my_cats as $cat_id ) {

	query_posts('cat=' . $cat_id . '&posts_per_page='. $my_maxposts );

	while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 

	ob_start();

	?><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li><?php

	$my_results[$cat_id][] = ob_get_contents();

	ob_end_clean();

	endwhile; 

	wp_reset_query();

}

for ( $i = 0; $i < $my_maxposts; $i ++ ) {

	?><ul><?php

	foreach ( $my_cats as $cat_id ) {

		echo $my_results[ $cat_id ][ $i ];

	}

	?></ul><?php

}

?>

Tell me if you need any explaination

(soz, small bug, just fixed!)

Previous versions of this answer: 05/20/10 at 8:18pm

05/20/10 9:09pm

Andrzej Zglobica says:

In case you wanna view also the excerpts after these headlines, you can try this:

<?php

$my_cats = array( 3, 4, 5 ); // define your category IDs here 

$my_maxposts = 7; // you can switch the number of last posts here



foreach ( $my_cats as $cat_id ) {

	query_posts('cat=' . $cat_id . '&posts_per_page='. $my_maxposts );

	while (have_posts()) : the_post(); 

	ob_start();

	?>

	<li>

		<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>

	</li>

	<?php

	$my_results[$cat_id][] = ob_get_contents();

	ob_end_clean();

	endwhile;

	wp_reset_query();

}

for ( $i = 0; $i < $my_maxposts; $i ++ ) {

	?><ul><?php

	foreach ( $my_cats as $cat_id ) {

		echo $my_results[ $cat_id ][ $i ];

	}

	?></ul><?php

}

?>

Last edited:
05/20/10
8:40pm

Oleg Butuzov says:

<?php

/*

	Getting the categories

*/	

// categories

$catsArray 			= array('1','2','3');

// prepare variable to get data

$result    			= array();

// number of poststs to retrive

$counter			= 3;

foreach($catsArray as $cat){

	query_posts(array('cat' => $cat, 'posts_per_page' => $counter, 'showposts' => $counter));

	if (count($wp_query->posts) > 0){

		foreach($wp_query->posts as $key=>$_post){

			$results[$key][$cat] = $_post;

		}

	}

	wp_reset_query();

}



/*

	Retriving the category

*/

foreach($results as $key=>$categories){

	echo '<ul>';

	foreach($categories as $categoryId=>$post){

		$currentCategory = get_category($categoryId);	

		?>

		<li>

			<h3><? echo $currentCategory->cat_name;?></h3>

			<a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID) ?>"><?php echo apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title); ?></a>

			

			/*

				You also can use

				echo apply_filters('the_content', $post->post_content);

				to retrive content

				

				------------

				

				echo apply_filters('the_excerpt', $post->post_excerpt);

				to retrive content

			*/

		</li>

		<?

	}

	echo '</ul>';

}

wp_reset_query();

?>

Previous versions of this answer: 05/20/10 at 8:40pm

Last edited:
05/20/10
11:09pm

Monster Coder says:

<?php

$cats = array('1','2','3'); //enter your 3 category IDs

$num_blocks=7;

$results =array();

foreach ($cats as $cat){

	query_posts(array('cat'=>$cat,'posts_per_page'=>$num_blocks));



	$i=0;

	while (have_posts()): the_post();

		if($i<=$num_blocks){

			$results[$i][] = get_the_ID();

		}

		$i++;

	endwhile;

	wp_reset_query();

}



foreach ($results as $result){



	query_posts(array('post__in'=>$result));

	while (have_posts()): the_post();

	?>

	<div class="cats">

	<li>



		<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>



		<!-- <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div> -->



	</li>

	</div>



	<?php

	endwhile;

	echo '<hr />';

	wp_reset_query();

}

?>