Best Practice For Small Loops

  • Hi,

    This is probably already somewhere but having a few difficulties with what exactly to call it/it’s called.

    Basically I just want to know what the most efficient and therefore hopefully the ‘best practice’ would be to achieve the following:

    My site is a news site and therefore has a number of categories. Most of the homepage & landing pages are made up of small loops of the, say, most recent 10 posts from a category.

    So if I wanted to create a reusable ‘loop’ or ‘content node’ (name?) for say category A, B, C etc what’s the best and most efficient way? Is it a function or a specific loop-x.php page, something else?

    Hard to find an example but on the Beeb (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/) they have the ‘Business, Health, Education’ etc snippets (half-way down) I’d like to have similar that I can just call on any page I wish.

    Thanks in advance for the help.

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  • What do you mean by “re-usable”?

    Thread Starter jdku

    (@jdku)

    Hi esmi, just mean so that i can call it from the homepage or from a specific category template or a page or wherever I wanted really. re-usable might not be the correct word in this instance!
    Thanks

    In that case, it might be best to create a function in functions.php that ran a secondary loop using parameters passed to it (category id, number of posts etc). To create the loop itself, I’d suggest you use WP_Query.

    Thread Starter jdku

    (@jdku)

    Hi esmi, ok cool thank you. I wasn’t sure what would be considered the best way to achieve it. A function is good for me! Thanks for your help.

    No problem. ?? If you have any problems wrangling the function into shape, we should be able to help with that too.

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