How to List Categories along with Their Posts

17th Mar 2011 | Posted by reza | 26 Comments

To help site visitor finding one or two categories, We can use default widget or wp_list_categories to list the categories. In some case, We want to display the categories along with their posts. Unfortunately, this default widget and function can’t perform that. But this snippet can.

Put the code below in the sidebar or in a page template to create a site map, or wherever You want to display the categories along with their post.


<?php
//get all categories then display all posts in each term
$taxonomy = 'category';
$param_type = 'category__in';
$term_args=array(
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC'
);
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
if ($terms) {
  foreach( $terms as $term ) {
    $args=array(
      "$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {  ?>
      <div class="category section">
	    <h3><?php echo 'Category '.$term->name;?></h3>
	    <ul>
	    <?php
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
       <?php
      endwhile;
      ?>
      </ul>
      </div>
 <?php
    }
  }
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

Credit

Thanks to MichaelH and Izvarinskij @ WordPress.org

19 Comments to “How to List Categories along with Their Posts”

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söve says:

March 25, 2011 at 03:38

very nice job.Thanks

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Dave House says:

July 6, 2011 at 10:09

Hey there,

Thanks so much for the code, it’s almost exactly what I need! I wonder if you could tell me how to exclude certain categories from the list, though?

Cheers!

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Mohummad Abdullah says:

July 13, 2011 at 07:03

Friends here is my working that i want to use:

$taxonomy = 'headline'; $param_type = 'headline__in'; $term_args=array( 'orderby' ?> 'name', 'order' => 'ASC' ); $terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args); if ($terms) { foreach( $terms as $term ) { $args=array( "$param_type" => array($term->term_id), 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'caller_get_posts'=> 1 ); $my_query = null; $my_query = new WP_Query($args); if( $my_query->have_posts() ) { ?>

<?php echo 'Category '.$term?>name;?>

<?php while ($my_query?>have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php endwhile;
?>

<?php }
}
}
wp_reset_query(); // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().

but problem is its outpu result:

Category games

My new post FF Check
dddddaaang
my tset new post

Category Sports

My new post FF Check
dddddaaang
my tset new post

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Max says:

July 28, 2011 at 08:22

Thank you very much for the code!

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Blake Moore says:

August 25, 2011 at 14:42

You have literally saved me an hour or two of my life and i cant thank you enough for that. Great piece of code. Thanks

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Dude says:

September 23, 2011 at 16:32

Love you! Spent million years for this code! Thank you very very much!

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Eduardo says:

October 6, 2011 at 09:18

Can I use this code for Custom Post Type? I tried to modify the code, but could get it working… Could someone help, please?
Thanks!

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- Nappa says:
  
  February 18, 2012 at 10:00
  
  I found that is well done with ->slug, here is the code
  //get all categories then display all posts in each term $taxonomy = 'capitoli'; $param_type = 'capitoli__in'; $term_args=array( 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC' ); $terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args); if ($terms) { foreach( $terms as $term ) { echo "TERM slug ".$term->slug; $args=array( 'capitoli' => ($term->slug), 'post_type' => 'tesi', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'caller_get_posts'=> 1, 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC' );
  
  $my_query = null;
  $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
  if( $my_query->have_posts() ) { ?>
  
  name;?>
  
  have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
  <a href="" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to ">
  
  <?php
  }
  }
  }
  wp_reset_query(); // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
  
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  - Barry Kafka says:
    
    April 27, 2012 at 17:46
    
    Grazie mille, Nappa. This worked perfectly.
James Endersby says:

November 17, 2011 at 03:56

You just saved me a whole load of time, thanks so much

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Ken says:

April 7, 2012 at 11:02

Thanks for this! Can someone advise how to modify this so as to exclude a category id or name from the generated list?

Thanks again!

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lara_lara says:

February 1, 2013 at 08:06

It really helped me, thanks a tons, i need one more small help, can u tell me how to exclude one category from the list.

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Rachel says:

March 22, 2013 at 10:17

Hi there,

This code is great, has saved me loads of time already!
Just wondering if it can be modified to link off to the category archive, rather than display the posts?

Thanks!

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Nadiar says:

April 26, 2013 at 12:44

Thanks Reza, this code work very well,

I have a question, how do I exclude specific categories?

Thanks

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Ankara Sove says:

May 29, 2013 at 13:19

This code will definetely save me time. Thanks dude

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Ngobrol Gadget says:

September 6, 2013 at 07:42

Wow, it really work ! thanks a lot !

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Aniruddh says:

January 8, 2014 at 23:06

Thank you so much for the code . Can I use this code for the tags also? Please advise. Thanks.

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Dian says:

February 27, 2014 at 17:20

Got it!, It is work… nice share guys…

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Aditya says:

March 8, 2014 at 08:54

Can I list posts under categories in drop down from in wordpress.com (rather than .org?)

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