Single page: multiple post_requests
I am planning to create a template page for a Wordpress theme that will load 5 separate "modules" within a portion of the page content. These modules are for each one of them showing the last 4 posts of different categories (to work similarly to this ).
What's the best way to approach this for loops?
Since page.php will call the while_posts loop to execute the template, the template php itself will have five modules. I would normally do while_posts for the request, but doing it five times on the same page during while_posts seems like nothing but a nuisance.
Is there a more convenient way to achieve this?
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Yes, the preferred way of doing multiple loops is to create a new WP_Query object for each loop. Do you know the has_posts function, etc., which you are using for loops now? They are just helpers. These methods also exist inside the WP_Query object, so you can have one loop for each object you create.
Read about it here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
get_posts
also comes to mind. But you won't be able to create real Wordpress loops using this function because it just returns messages in a numeric array.
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