Display Certain Number of Posts from Multiple Categories

A starting place of code for you is here
https://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Pull-Latest-Post-from-Each-of-6-Categories-p23380122.html

That code gets one post per category. A simple addition will let you specify a specific # of posts per category

stvwlf, thanks for code suggestion–it is a good place to start indeed.

I know this is a beginner question, but where does that go in the index.php file and does it replace something already in there?

Thanks!

Hi

That is a good question, and I should have provided the answer. Put it before the WordPress loop. The loop starts with this code

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Thanks so much for your help, stvwlf!

In case anyone needs to do this, I modified the code from here for multiple posts.

$post_limit_per_cat = 5;

$post_ids = array(0);
foreach( array(7) as $cat_id ) {
        if ( $posts = get_posts(array('cat' => $cat_id, 'showposts' => $post_limit_per_cat)) ) {
		$post_current_count = 0;

                while( (count($posts) > 0) AND ($post_current_count < $post_limit_per_cat) ) {
	                $first = array_shift($posts);
	                $post_ids[] = $first->ID;
	                $post_current_count++;
                }
        }
}
query_posts(array('post__in' => $post_ids));