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<p>I know this may be simple, but I'm still a little new to WP and PHP and can't figure this one out.</p> <p>Originally, the page was pulling recent posts from 1 category into a group of various columns. That was done nicely with a custom function:</p> <pre><code>category_loop('columns', 'Recent Articles', 4); function category_loop($id, $name, $number) </code></pre> <p>The category id was columns, title of section was recent post and it had 4 total posts.</p> <p>Well, now they need it to be pulled form 2 categories - "columns" and "commentary" and, without rewriting all of the current code, I was wondering if there was a way to do something with an array (or anything) to allow for the 2 category $ids to be used in the function.</p> <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated and I can provide more code if necessary.</p> <p>Thanks so much!</p> <p>EDIT: Here is the function itself:</p> <pre><code>} function category_loop($id, $name, $number){ $weather = get_category_by_slug('the-weather'); $acupuncture = get_category_by_slug('acupuncture-after-the-apocalypse'); $letters = get_category_by_slug('letters-from-the-editors'); ?> <div class="category-block"> <div class="category-block-title"> <div style="margin-top: 4px;"> <?php echo $name ?> </div> </div> <div id="<?php echo $id ?>-posts" class="category-post-loop"> <?php remove_action('genesis_post_content', 'genesis_do_post_content'); add_action('genesis_post_content', 'do_post_excerpt'); add_filter('genesis_post_title', 'trop_byline_short'); // Columns -- be sure to remove featured posts $args = array( 'category_name' => $id, 'cat' => '-'.$weather->cat_ID.',-' .$acupuncture->cat_ID.',-'.$letters->cat_ID, 'orderby' => 'date', 'posts_per_page' => $number, 'meta_query' => array(array( 'key' => 'featured', 'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS' )) ); genesis_custom_loop( $args ); remove_filter('genesis_post_title', 'trop_byline_short'); add_action('genesis_post_content', 'genesis_do_post_content'); remove_action('genesis_post_content', 'do_post_excerpt'); ?> </code></pre>
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