Title: Loop inside sub categories loop
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Loop inside sub categories loop

 *  [equaldesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/equaldesign/)
 * (@equaldesign)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-inside-sub-categories-loop/)
 * I am using the following code to get the child categories of the category 7:
 *     ```
       <?php $descendants = get_categories(array('child_of' => 7)); ?>
       <?php foreach ($descendants as $child) { ?>
       //do stuff
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 * What I need is for each child category, to then query the posts of that category
   and display the title of the three newest posts in that child category – i.e.
   all this would happen in the ‘do stuff’ part.
 * Anybody any ideas?
    Thanks in anticipation!

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-inside-sub-categories-loop/#post-1166562)
 * Hi
 * I didn’t test the code below but it will be close, if not exact
 *     ```
       <?php $descendants = get_categories(array('child_of' => 7)); ?>
       <?php foreach ($descendants as $child) { ?>
              $catPosts = new WP_Query();
              $catPosts->query("showposts=3&cat=$child->term_id"); ?>
              <ul>
              <?php while ($catPosts->have_posts()) : $catPosts->the_post(); ?>
               <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"<?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
             <?php endwhile; ?>
             </ul>
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [equaldesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/equaldesign/)
 * (@equaldesign)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-inside-sub-categories-loop/#post-1166745)
 * Thanks for that stvwlf it was almost as required, but thanks to that code I was
   able to adjust slightly to get what I required which is below:
 *     ```
       <?php $descendants = get_categories(array('child_of' => 7)); ?>
       <?php foreach ($descendants as $child) { ?>
       <?php $catPosts = new WP_Query(); $catPosts->query("showposts=3&cat=$child->term_id"); ?>
       <h2><?php echo $child->cat_name; ?></h2>
       <?php while ($catPosts->have_posts()) : $catPosts->the_post(); ?>
       <ul>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       </ul>
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 *  [grrlfriend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grrlfriend/)
 * (@grrlfriend)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-inside-sub-categories-loop/#post-1166924)
 * equaldesign,
    Thank you for sharing your solution – it was EXACTLY what I needed.
   I’ve been trying to wrangle the PHP and have come close to a solution but this
   totally did the trick.
 * Thanks again!

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 * [child categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-categories/)
 * [loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop/)

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