Title: $postcount help needed.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# $postcount help needed.

 *  Resolved [adayin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adayin/)
 * (@adayin)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postcount-help-needed/)
 * Hi there, I am trying to get a website to display 9 posts from a specific category
   in three columns on an archive/category page.
 * I’m also using this snippet of code to call a CSS class when the the 3rd column
   has a post:
 * `<? if ( $postcount%3 == 0 ) { echo ' last'; } ?>`
 * Obviously I need to include a postcount in the loop to get this to work and at
   the moment the code above does not know when to call the .last style.
 * Please could some one give me a hand with this.
 * Thank you very much.
 * P.S. This is the code from the page I’m working on:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       <div id="work_wrap">
   
       <h2 class="headers">Recent work </h2>
   
       <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   
       <div id="work">	   			
   
       <div class="work_item<? if ( $postcount%3 == 0 ) { echo ' last'; } ?>">
       <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php echo get_post_image (get_the_id(), '', '', '' .get_bloginfo('template_url') .'/scripts/timthumb.php?zc=1&w=300&h=177&src='); ?></a>
       <p><?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { echo $category->cat_name . ''; } ?>: <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       </div><!--END WORK ITEM CLASS-->
   
       </div>
   
       <?php endwhile; ?>
   
       <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/pagination.php'); ?>
   
       <?php else : ?>
   
       <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       </div><!--END WORK_WRAP WRAPPER-->
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [adayin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adayin/)
 * (@adayin)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postcount-help-needed/#post-1174019)
 * Oh I also forgot to mention that there will be 9 posts per page and showing the
   children of one specific category. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [adayin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adayin/)
 * (@adayin)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postcount-help-needed/#post-1174043)
 * I managed to get this working in the end. Just for those that may want to know,
   this is how:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       <div id="work_wrap">
   
       <h2 class="headers">Recent work </h2>
   
       		<?php $postcount = 0; ?>
   
       		<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while(have_posts()) : the_post();  ?>
   
       			<?php $postcount++; ?>
   
       <div id="work">
   
       <div class="work_item<? if ( $postcount%3 == 0 ) { echo ' last'; } ?>">
       <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php echo get_post_image (get_the_id(), '', '', '' .get_bloginfo('template_url') .'/scripts/timthumb.php?zc=1&w=300&h=177&src='); ?></a>
       <p><?php foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { echo $category->cat_name . ''; } ?>: <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       </div><!--END WORK ITEM CLASS-->
       </div>
   
       <?php endwhile; ?>
   
       	<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/pagination.php'); ?>
   
       	<?php else : ?>
   
       <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       </div><!--END WORK_WRAP WRAPPER-->
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   

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 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [postcount](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/postcount/)

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 * Last reply from: [adayin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adayin/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postcount-help-needed/#post-1174043)
 * Status: resolved

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