wordpress show latest post from each category

Many people want to show wordpress show latest post from each category posts from there selected categories or all categories on home page. Here we given code snippet for this.
I this article I will show how easily you can achieve this.

wordpress show latest post from each category

Please following code in your home page which is your theme’s index.php file.

<!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1">php</span>-->
$categories=get_categories($all_categories);
 foreach($categories as $category) {
 $post_args=array(
 'showposts' =--> 1, // you can fetch number of articles from each category
 'category__in' => array($category->term_id),
 'caller_get_posts'=>1
 );
 $posts=get_posts($post_args);
 if ($posts) {
 echo '</pre>
Category: sprintf( __( " href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '">name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</pre>
<pre> ';foreach($posts as $post) {</pre>
<pre>
 setup_postdata($post); ?></pre>
<div>

php the_title_attribute(); ?>" href="<!--?php the_permalink() ?-->" rel="bookmark">
 <!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1">php</span> the_title(); ?-->

<!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1">php</span> the_excerpt(); ?-->

</div>
<pre>
 <!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1">php</span>-->
 } // foreach($posts
 } // if ($posts
 } // foreach($categories
?-->

if you want to show the posts from specific articles then use following code.

<!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1">php</span>-->
$selected_categories=array(
 'include' =--> '1,4,9',
 'order' => 'ASC'
 );

$categories=get_categories($selected_categories);foreach($categories as $category) {
 $post_args=array(
 'showposts' => 1, // you can fetch number of articles from each category
 'category__in' => array($category->term_id),
 'caller_get_posts'=>1
 );
 $posts=get_posts($post_args);
 if ($posts) {
 echo '</pre>
Category: sprintf( __( " href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '">name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</pre>
<pre> ';foreach($posts as $post) {</pre>
<pre>
 setup_postdata($post); ?></pre>
<div>

php the_title_attribute(); ?>" href="<!--?php the_permalink() ?-->" rel="bookmark">
 <!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1">php</span> the_title(); ?-->

<!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1">php</span> the_excerpt(); ?-->

</div>
<pre>
 <!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1">php</span>-->
 } // foreach($posts
 } // if ($posts
 } // foreach($categories
?-->

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2 thoughts on “wordpress show latest post from each category”

  1. What about if I choose certain categories but I don’t want one of the child-categories of one of these chosen categories?

    How do I exclude this category?

    I tried to add ‘exclude’ => ’35’, But that does not seem to work.

    Any thoughts? 🙂

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