Title: WP_Query("cat=4&showposts=4"); question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WP_Query("cat=4&showposts=4"); question

 *  [lilith2014](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilith2014/)
 * (@lilith2014)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_querycat4showposts4-question/)
 * Good day,
 * I would like to know how to change this code:
    `<?php $recent = new WP_Query("
   cat=4&showposts=4"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>`
 * to display more categories, instead of only one?
 * Newbie here, thank you.

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 *  [Chinmoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chinmoy/)
 * (@chinmoy)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_querycat4showposts4-question/#post-1592529)
 * `<?php $recent = new WP_Query("showposts=4"); while($recent->have_posts()) : 
   $recent->the_post();?>`
 * Try this once.

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