pacothelovetaco

Thank you for your help. I decided to do things a different way and restructure the design. The solution I came up with is easier and makes more sense.

<?php
    $args=array(
      'category__in' => array(1,2,3,4),
      'posts_per_page' => 4,
      'orderby' => 'post_date',
      'order' => 'DESC'
     );
     $wp_query->query($args);
  ?>

I have this, but here is where I am lost. Is it possible to show 1 post from each category, and whichever post is the most recent has to be at top? For instance, only one post is shown for category 1,2,3,4. But category 2 has the most recent post and needs to be at the top. I’m wondering if it’s even possible doing it this way.

Sorry, I think we are posting at the same time. After you sent your links, it was the insight that I needed. I wanted to get rid of that embarrassing code before anyone else saw it.

Peter_L, I think you got it. I’m playing with the new code now.

Nothing?

I knew it was something like that. Thank you for the second set of eyes Twelvefootsnowman.

Hopefully this will be a solution for some of you. I was having the same problem. However comments worked in the default WP theme, it just would not work in my theme. Comparing the two themes, I found that my single.php template was missing <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> After I added it, everything worked fine. So check if you are calling the loop in this way:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div>
YOUR POSTS CONTENT
</div>

<?php comments_template(); ?>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I have a feeling this is the correct way to do it. I rarely looked at the documentation when I learned to use WP. Hope this helps for someone, and it isn’t my own isolated newbie mistake.