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.

01&lt;!--?&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenSpellError&quot; pre=&quot;&quot; data-mce-bogus=&quot;1&quot;&gt;php&lt;/span&gt;--&gt;
02$categories=get_categories($all_categories);
03 foreach($categories as $category) {
04 $post_args=array(
05 'showposts' =--&gt; 1, // you can fetch number of articles from each category
06 'category__in' =&gt; array($category-&gt;term_id),
07 'caller_get_posts'=&gt;1
08 );
09 $posts=get_posts($post_args);
10 if ($posts) {
11 echo '&lt;/pre&gt;
12Category: sprintf( __( &quot; href=&quot;' . get_category_link( $category-&gt;term_id ) . '&quot;&gt;name ) . '&quot; ' . '&gt;' . $category-&gt;name.'&lt;/pre&gt;
13&lt;pre&gt; ';foreach($posts as $post) {&lt;/pre&gt;
14&lt;pre&gt;
15 setup_postdata($post); ?&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
16&lt;div&gt;
17 
18php the_title_attribute(); ?&gt;&quot; href=&quot;&lt;!--?php the_permalink() ?--&gt;&quot; rel=&quot;bookmark&quot;&gt;
19 &lt;!--?&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenSpellError&quot; pre=&quot;&quot; data-mce-bogus=&quot;1&quot;&gt;php&lt;/span&gt; the_title(); ?--&gt;
20 
21&lt;!--?&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenSpellError&quot; pre=&quot;&quot; data-mce-bogus=&quot;1&quot;&gt;php&lt;/span&gt; the_excerpt(); ?--&gt;
22 
23&lt;/div&gt;
24&lt;pre&gt;
25 &lt;!--?&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenSpellError&quot; pre=&quot;&quot; data-mce-bogus=&quot;1&quot;&gt;php&lt;/span&gt;--&gt;
26 } // foreach($posts
27 } // if ($posts
28 } // foreach($categories
29?--&gt;

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

01&lt;!--?&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenSpellError&quot; pre=&quot;&quot; data-mce-bogus=&quot;1&quot;&gt;php&lt;/span&gt;--&gt;
02$selected_categories=array(
03 'include' =--&gt; '1,4,9',
04 'order' =&gt; 'ASC'
05 );
06 
07$categories=get_categories($selected_categories);foreach($categories as $category) {
08 $post_args=array(
09 'showposts' =&gt; 1, // you can fetch number of articles from each category
10 'category__in' =&gt; array($category-&gt;term_id),
11 'caller_get_posts'=&gt;1
12 );
13 $posts=get_posts($post_args);
14 if ($posts) {
15 echo '&lt;/pre&gt;
16Category: sprintf( __( &quot; href=&quot;' . get_category_link( $category-&gt;term_id ) . '&quot;&gt;name ) . '&quot; ' . '&gt;' . $category-&gt;name.'&lt;/pre&gt;
17&lt;pre&gt; ';foreach($posts as $post) {&lt;/pre&gt;
18&lt;pre&gt;
19 setup_postdata($post); ?&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
20&lt;div&gt;
21 
22php the_title_attribute(); ?&gt;&quot; href=&quot;&lt;!--?php the_permalink() ?--&gt;&quot; rel=&quot;bookmark&quot;&gt;
23 &lt;!--?&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenSpellError&quot; pre=&quot;&quot; data-mce-bogus=&quot;1&quot;&gt;php&lt;/span&gt; the_title(); ?--&gt;
24 
25&lt;!--?&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenSpellError&quot; pre=&quot;&quot; data-mce-bogus=&quot;1&quot;&gt;php&lt;/span&gt; the_excerpt(); ?--&gt;
26 
27&lt;/div&gt;
28&lt;pre&gt;
29 &lt;!--?&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenSpellError&quot; pre=&quot;&quot; data-mce-bogus=&quot;1&quot;&gt;php&lt;/span&gt;--&gt;
30 } // foreach($posts
31 } // if ($posts
32 } // foreach($categories
33?--&gt;

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

sam123 says:

July 20, 2010 at 1:55 pm

Very helpful article. I have been looking for a way to do this all my life. Thanks for the codes.

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Kristof says:

May 5, 2012 at 10:19 pm

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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