List only posts that belong to two or more categories (Solution)

First of all, thanks picandocodigo for the great plugin!

With a few modifications I achieved a way to list posts that belong to two or more categories. Here’s my solution:

In the shortcode, use + instead of the comma to separate category IDs or names, like this:

[catlist id=3+4] or [catlist name=sports+baseball] will list only posts that belong to both categories.

You’ll need to make the following modifications in the CatList.php file, inside the include folder.

IMPORTANT – the changes proposed below are for the version 0.28 of the plugin. Make a backup copy of the original files!

Locate this: (line 29 in the original file)

$args = array('cat'=> $this->lcp_category_id);

And change to:

if (is_array($this->lcp_category_id))
  $args = array('category__and' => $this->lcp_category_id);
else
  $args = array('cat'=> $this->lcp_category_id);

Replace the function get_lcp_category() (lines 113-137 in the original file) for this:

private function get_lcp_category(){
    if ( isset($this->params['categorypage']) &&
      $this->params['categorypage'] == 'yes' ):
      $this->lcp_category_id = $this->lcp_get_current_category();
    elseif ( !empty($this->params['name']) ):
      if (preg_match('/\+/', $this->params['name'])):
        $categories = array();
        $cat_array = explode("+", $this->params['name']);
        foreach ($cat_array as $category) :
          $id = $this->get_category_id_by_name($category);
          $categories[] = $id;
        endforeach;
        $this->lcp_category_id = $categories;
      elseif (preg_match('/,/', $this->params['name'])):
        $categories = '';
        $cat_array = explode(",", $this->params['name']);
        foreach ($cat_array as $category) :
          $id = $this->get_category_id_by_name($category);
          $categories .= $id . ",";
        endforeach;
        $this->lcp_category_id = $categories;
      else:
        $this->lcp_category_id = $this->get_category_id_by_name($this->params['name']);
      endif;
    elseif ( isset($this->params['id']) && $this->params['id'] != '0' ):
      if (preg_match('/\+/', $this->params['id']))
        $this->lcp_category_id = explode("+", $this->params['id']);
      else
        $this->lcp_category_id = $this->params['id'];
    endif;
  }

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