Schleife für Beiträge je Kategorie

<?php
/**
 * DCN CatLooper
 *
 * Das folgende Code-Snippet dient in einem Wordpress-Theme der spaltenweise Ausgabe von Beitraegen je (ausgewaehlter) Kategorie fuer die Startseite.
 * Example on/Beispiel auf: http://blogcraft.de (indexpage, under the top post)
 *
 * The following code snippet is for usage in a Wordpress theme file.
 * It is a looping example for the output of items in a row of selected categories.
 *
 * Code snippet is licensed under a Creative Commons licence - CC-BY-3.0-DE
 *
 * @author Christoph Grabo <blogcrafter@blogcraft.de>
 * @link http://blogcraft.de/b/technik/snippets/schleife-fuer-beitraege-je-kategorie CatLooper Description (german)
 * @version 1.0
 * @copyright Copyright (c) 2010, Christoph Grabo
 * @licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/ Creative Commons BY 3.0 DE
 */
?>
<div id="catlooper">
<?php
  $dcn_catloop = array(
          1 => "Kategorie1",
          2 => "Kategorie2",
          3 => "Kategorie3"
          );
  /*
    DE: Fuer jede Spalte die Kategorie-ID und gewuenschte Überschrift
    EN: for every row give here the category ID and a good headline name
  */
   
  $dcn_catitems_max = 3;
  /*
    DE: gewuenschte Anzahl der Beitraege je Kategorie um 1 reduziert! (da Schleife bei 0/Null anfaengt)
    EN: desired count of items per category minus 1 (loop counting starts with zero!)
  */
 
  foreach($dcn_catloop as $dcn_catloop_id => $dcn_catloop_name) { ?>
  <div class="dcn-catrow">
    <h3 class="dcn-cattitle"><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($dcn_catloop_id); ?>"><?php echo $dcn_catloop_name; ?></a></h3>
    <p class="dcn-catdescr"><?php echo category_description($dcn_catloop_id); ?></p>
    <?php
      $dcn_category = new WP_Query('showposts='.($dcn_catitems_max+1).'&cat='.$dcn_catloop_id);
      $dcn_loopcounter = 0;
      while ($dcn_category->have_posts()) : $dcn_category->the_post();
        $dcn_loopcounter++;
        update_post_caches($posts);
       
        //if( get_the_ID() === $top_post_id ) { $loopcounter--; continue; }
        /*
          $top_post_id Abfrage/query:
          DE: auskommentieren, falls man ueber dieser Schleife noch einen grossen angeteaserten Post benutzen moechte (siehe auf blogcraft.de)
          EN: comment this out if you don't want to have repeated the teaser post on index (like on blogcraft.de)
        */
    ?>
    <div class="dcn-catpost">
      <h4 class="dcn-catpost-header"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="permalink zu &#187;<?php the_title(); ?>&#171;"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
      <p class="dcn-catpost-entry">
        <?php the_excerpt(); /* oder deine Alternative / or alternative */ ?>
      </p>
      <p class="dcn-catpost-readmore"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>#more" title="weiterlesen von '<?php the_title(); ?>' ...">&nbsp;</a></p>
    </div>
    <?php
        if($dcn_loopcounter == $dcn_catitems_max) break;
      endwhile; //of while(have_posts() ...)
    ?>
  </div>
<?php
  }; //end of cat loop
?>
</div>