Title: Loop through categories
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Loop through categories

 *  [Dave Wright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davetwizzlebird/)
 * (@davetwizzlebird)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-through-categories/)
 * I’d like to create some category based navigation on my site using some custom
   fields I’ve added to my categories. If I was doing this with posts or custom 
   types I’d do this…
 *     ```
       <?php $recentPosts = new WP_Query(); $recentPosts->query('post_type=category&showposts=5');?>
       <?php while ($recentPosts->have_posts()) : $recentPosts->the_post(); ?>
       <?php the_title();?>
       // Custom field stuff here
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 * Obviously I don’t have that luxury with categories, also wp_list_categories is
   a bit flimsy for my needs of hooking into custom field info. Is there any way
   of using categories as you would posts in a standard wp loop?

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## Tags

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

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 * Last reply from: [Dave Wright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davetwizzlebird/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loop-through-categories/)
 * Status: not resolved

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