Duplicate display of featured posts

  • I have a WordPress theme that displays an excerpt of the latest posts from each category. The problem is a lot of my posts are under multiple categories, so the homepage has a bunch of duplicate stories from different categories on it. Here’s a screen shot of the problem:

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    As you can see, Resident Evil and Star Trek are displayed twice. Is there any way to make it only display one post from each category without creating duplicates? I tried messing with the code but can’t find a solution. Here’s the part of the code that displays the posts:

    function xinmag_section_display( $section ) {
    global $xinmag_options, $xinmag_headlines;

    $args = array(
                'post_type' => 'post',
                'post_status' => 'publish',
                'posts_per_page' => $xinmag_options['section_postnum'],
                'category__in' => $section,
                'post__not_in' => $xinmag_headlines,
                );
    $section_posts = new WP_Query( $args );
    $count = 0;
    if ( $section_posts->have_posts() ) {
        echo '<h3 class="section-title bdcolor_' . $section . '">';
        printf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" class="%3$s">%2$s</a>',
                        get_category_link( $section ) ,
                        get_the_category_by_ID( $section ),
                        'color_' . $section );
        echo '</h3>';
        $ugly_hack = "";
        while ( $section_posts->have_posts() ) {

            $section_posts->the_post();
            echo '<div class="section-item">';

            if ( 0 == $count) {
                if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
                    echo '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">';
                    the_post_thumbnail( 'xinmag-section', array(  'class' => 'section-image' ,'title' => get_the_title() ) );
                    echo '</a>';
                }
                echo '<h2 class="section-top"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a></h2>';
                echo '<div class="entry-summary clearfix">';
                the_excerpt();
                echo '</div>';
            }
            else
                echo '<h2 class="section-index"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a></h2>';
            $count++;
            echo '</div>';
        }
    }
    wp_reset_postdata();
}

    If it helps to have the theme it’s called Xin Magazine and the file is “/xin-magazine/inc/lib-content.php” lines 300-343.

    Thanks, any help would be appreciated!

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  • Thread Starter Rub3X

    (@rub3x)

    Looks like you’ll also need magazine.php to figure this out. I read the code and it looks like I should be able to change foreach ( $sections[‘section’] as $section ) {

    to

    while ($x < 10) {

    and it should work. And it does…except it doesn’t put the stories in different columns, it puts it all in a single column…

    wp_reset_postdata();
	$sections = array();
	parse_str( $xinmag_options['section_order'], $sections );
	$col = 0;
	$column = 3;
	foreach ( $sections['section'] as $section ) {
		if ( $column > 1 && $col == 0 )
			echo "\n" . '<div class="row">';
		echo "\n" .'<div id="section-' . $section . '" class="section-home large-4 columns">';
		$col = $col + 1;
		if ( $col == 3 )
			$col = 0;
		xinmag_section_display( $section );
		echo '</div>';
		if ( $col == 0 )
			echo '</div><!-- row -->';	 //row
	}
	if ( $col > 0 )
		echo '</div><!-- row -->';
?>
</div><!-- content -->

    Hi,
    I have a question about xin magazine theme too, I’m testing it now and I would like to have more then 3 titles in one category on the homepage, for now it’s only 3 visible titles on homepage is there a chance to change that?
    I will be grateful for the help!
    Cheers ??

    Thread Starter Rub3X

    (@rub3x)

    If you’re asking what I think you’re asking, go to Appearence -> Theme options -> Sections

    There you can pick and choose which categories show up on the home page and customize their colors.

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