How to loop through categories to show most recent N posts

[jrhager84]

On my home page, I’m trying to use the Looper to get all categories that have at least one post, and the loop through to get the most recent N number of posts for each category. So it looks like this:

[Category title]
[Post 1] [Post 2] [Post 3] [Post 4]

[Category title]
[Post 1] [Post 2]

[Category title]
[Post 1]

The outer looper can only get all terms, with no exclusions which doesn’t help me, and the query builder/string brings back posts instead of just the list of category names/ids for me to iterate over. Is there a reference where I can see how to structure this to loop through the categories, getting the most recent N posts for each category to display? Thanks!

[ruenel]

Hello @jrhager84,

Thanks for writing in!

You will need to run a nested looper. The element will be like this:

Looper Provider All Terms
   Looper Consumer
        Headline `{{dc:term:name}}` to display the category title
        Looper Provider Query String `post_type=post&cat={{dc:term:slug}}`
             Looper Consumer
                 Headline `{{dc:post:title}}` to display the post title

Hope this makes sense.

[jrhager84]

Ah. I think the issue is I was using category instead of cat.

Does this allow the exclusion of certain terms though? Like a category that I don’t want listed?

[ruenel]

Hello @jrhager84,

If you want to exclude a category, you will have to add a condition in the first Looper Consumer element.

Thanks.

[jrhager84]

When I select Taxonomy is says ‘no options.’ It doesn’t seem to give me the ability to restrict a given category. Is that not something that can be done? I just want to filter certain categories to not appear in the search. Also - if I’m getting 3 and 1 is a filtered post, won’t it only bring back 2 then?

[marc_a]

Hey @jrhager84,

We need to check your backend settings on how you set up the Loopers. With that said, please provide the following information in a Secure Note.

• WordPress Login URL
• Admin level username and password

You can find the Secure Note button at the bottom of your posts.

Hope that helps.