Title: get_terms offset working?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# get_terms offset working?

 *  Resolved [mattregister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattregister/)
 * (@mattregister)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_terms-offset-working/)
 * I am trying to display a list of termsfrom my taxonomy “organization” in an unordered
   list but display them in two columns. This is what I have for my first column:
 *     ```
       function print_organizations1() {
       $countterms = wp_count_terms( 'organization' );
       if($countterms&1) {
       $firstcolumn = ( ( ( $countterms - 1) / 2 ) + 1);
       } else {
       $firstcolumn = ( $countterms  / 2 ); }
       $secondcolumn = ( $countterms - $firstcolumn );
       $terms = get_terms( 'organization', array('number' => $firstcolumn ));
       print '<div class="vcex-bullets vcex-bullets-gray"><ul>';
       foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
            // The $term is an object, so we don't need to specify the $taxonomy.
           $term_link = get_term_link( $term );
           // If there was an error, continue to the next term.
           if ( is_wp_error( $term_link ) ) {
               continue;
           }
           // We successfully got a link. Print it out.
           print '<li><a href="' . esc_url( $term_link ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
       }
       print '</ul></div>';
       }
       add_shortcode('print-organizations1', 'print_organizations1');
       ```
   
 * That works perfectly. It figures out how many is in the first half of the list
   and uses that number of terms to display. When I try to make the second column
   is where I am getting lost. I try to offset the list by the number of terms in
   the first column.
 *     ```
       function print_organizations2() {
       $countterms = wp_count_terms( 'organization' );
       if($countterms&1) {
       $firstcolumn = ( ( ( $countterms - 1) / 2 ) + 1);
       } else {
       $firstcolumn = ( $countterms  / 2 ); }
       $secondcolumn = ( $countterms - $firstcolumn );
       $terms = get_terms( 'organization', array('offset' => $firstcolumn ));
       print '<div class="vcex-bullets vcex-bullets-gray"><ul>';
       foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
            // The $term is an object, so we don't need to specify the $taxonomy.
           $term_link = get_term_link( $term );
           // If there was an error, continue to the next term.
           if ( is_wp_error( $term_link ) ) {
               continue;
           }
           // We successfully got a link. Print it out.
           print '<li><a href="' . esc_url( $term_link ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
       }
       print '</ul></div>';
       }
       add_shortcode('print-organizations2', 'print_organizations2');
       ```
   
 * This outputs the entire list. Even when I replace $firstcolumn with a hard number
   it still displays the whole list. What am I missing? any thoughts?

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 *  [toddhuish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toddhuish/)
 * (@toddhuish)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_terms-offset-working/#post-5142766)
 * When using an offset you also have to make sure that the number you are returning
   is less than the total otherwise you get the whole list so you have to offset
   by the count of the first list and explicitly tell it to grab what’s left.
 *     ```
       $terms = get_terms( 'organization', array('offset' => $firstcolumn ));
       ```
   
 * becomes
 *     ```
       $terms = get_terms( 'organization', array('offset' => $firstcolumn , 'number' => $secondcolumn));
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [mattregister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattregister/)
 * (@mattregister)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_terms-offset-working/#post-5142769)
 * Awesome. That fixed it!
 *  [corbinfraser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corbinfraser/)
 * (@corbinfraser)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_terms-offset-working/#post-5142871)
 * Any idea how one would include an additional column using this same method? I
   assume the entire math formula in the conditional statement would have to change,
   but any attempt I’ve made so far hasn’t produced any useable results. Just lots
   of repeated terms.
 *  [corbinfraser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corbinfraser/)
 * (@corbinfraser)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_terms-offset-working/#post-5142873)
 * Scratch that. Got a 3rd column working by creating a custom offset and tweaking
   the formula a bit to reflect 3 columns.
 * Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with this method, been trying to
   come up with a way to do this for a while now.
 *     ```
       function print_organizations3() {
       $countterms = wp_count_terms( 'base_suppliers_category' );
       if($countterms&1) {
       $firstcolumn = ( ( $countterms - 1) / 3 );
       } else {
       $firstcolumn = ( $countterms  / 3 ); }
   
       $secondcolumn = ( ( $countterms - $firstcolumn ) / 2 );
       $thirdcolumn = ( ( $countterms - $firstcolumn ) / 2 );
       $thirdcolumnoffset = ( $firstcolumn + $secondcolumn );
   
       $terms = get_terms( 'base_suppliers_category', array('offset' => $thirdcolumnoffset, 'number' => $thirdcolumn));
       print '<div class="four columns">';
       foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
            // The $term is an object, so we don't need to specify the $taxonomy.
           $term_link = get_term_link( $term );
           // If there was an error, continue to the next term.
           if ( is_wp_error( $term_link ) ) {
               continue;
           }
           // We successfully got a link. Print it out.
           print '<li><a href="#'. $term->slug.'">' . $term->name . '</a></li>';
       }
       print '</div>';
       }
       add_shortcode('print-organizations3', 'print_organizations3');
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [corbinfraser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corbinfraser/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_terms-offset-working/#post-5142873)
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