How To Show List Of Categories By Recently Updated In WordPress?

WordPress is an open source CMS so you can do anything with it. In this CMS, there is a category option for post to make your post in right group. Now if you want to show your user that you recently posted in which category then you can do it easily. Its same a latest post widget but its like a latest updated category.

Here you will get your latest category which you used in your post in a list with order like if you want to show latest 10 updated category in lost thn latest updated category will be on top out of ten.

List Of Categories By Recently Updated In WordPress Code:

Now this is a simple PHP code so you have to add it in your theme files not function files. You can add it in sidebar, header, footer, index, pages anywhere easily. Now without any more preface, go to the code and use it in your theme to increase internal linking and catch ore page views.

<?php
    $cat_array = array();
    $args=array(
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'posts_per_page' => 10,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
    $my_query = null;
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
        $cat_args=array('orderby' => 'none');
        $cats = wp_get_post_terms( $post->ID , 'category', $cat_args);
        foreach($cats as $cat) {
          $cat_array[$cat->term_id] = $cat->term_id;
        }
      endwhile;
    }
    if ($cat_array) {
      foreach($cat_array as $cat) {
        $category = get_term_by('ID',$cat, 'category');
        echo '<a href="' . esc_attr(get_term_link($category, 'category')) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a>'.'<br />';
      }
    }
    wp_reset_query();
?>

Customization:

You can change 10 with your desired latest updated category to show in list. So if you want to customize it then there is nothing to customize it here. Its ready to used everywhere.

Last Words:

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