Title: Adding a feature category functionality
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Adding a feature category functionality

 *  [ecsancho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecsancho/)
 * (@ecsancho)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-feature-category-functionality/)
 * Greetings I’m new to WP and was wondering if the community can point me in the
   right direction on how to accomplish some added functionality.
 * What my client wants is 3 different categories (ie movies, music, tech) with 
   the latest post per category featured on the homepage. So 3 different post from
   3 different categories showing.
 * 1) In my head how I would go abouts doing this is add extra column in the wp_terms
   table that is Boolean type for feature category.
 * 2) In edit-tags.php add checkbox for featured category, then when update button
   click somehow saved checkbox value in the new column created in the wp_terms 
   table. Still need to do RnD on this.
 * 3)In the front end, first search if any featured categories are true and grab
   the latest post in that category and display the results.
 * So this is how I plan on tackling this feature, but if anyone can give suggestions
   on how to do this or suggest a pluggin I would be grateful. Thanks

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 *  [Haamed Hosseini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamed-hosseini/)
 * (@hamed-hosseini)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-feature-category-functionality/#post-4268807)
 * hi , for lastest post from custom category you can try this code :
 *     ```
       <?php
       $catquery = new WP_Query( 'cat=3&posts_per_page=10' );
       while($catquery->have_posts()) : $catquery->the_post();
       ?>
   
       <ul>
       <li><h3><a>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
       <ul>
       <li><?php the_content(); ?></li>
       </ul>
       </li>
       </ul>
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [ecsancho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecsancho/)
 * (@ecsancho)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-feature-category-functionality/#post-4268817)
 * Cool thanks for response. Now is the workflow I mention above the correct way
   of adding the Feature Category through admin side correct?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ecsancho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecsancho/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-feature-category-functionality/#post-4268817)
 * Status: not resolved

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