How to get a specific post from a category

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Hello,

How can I get a specific post from a category?

Right now I can only use a specific post from all the posts on the site:
{% assign post = site.posts [1]%}

I also need to take 2,3,4 posts from the news category
No loop and offset

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Given post

---
title: My title
categories: foo bar
---

No loop

I don’t know why you don’t want a loop, it seems odd without the context, but anyway:

{% assign c = site.categories.foo %} <!-- posts in category "foo" -->

- c[1].title <!-- Second item at index 1 -->
- c[2].title
- c[3].title

Using slice

You can get the first 3 posts in foo like:

{% assign c = site.categories.foo | slice: 0, 3 %}
{% for p in c %}
- {{ p.title }}
{% endfor %}

Add a link!

{% for p in c %}
- [{{ p.title }}]({{ p.url | relative_url }})
{% endfor %}

Or start at 2nd item and get 3 items.

{% assign c = site.categories.foo | slice: 1, 3 %}

{% for p in c %}
- {{ p.title }}
{% endfor %}

Offset and limit

Or if you don’t want to use slice. Here also getting first 3 items starting at 2nd.

{% for p in site.categories.foo offset: 1 limit: 3 %}
- {{ p.title }}
{% endfor %}
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For interest to explore all items in all categories. From my Cheatsheet

<ul>
    {% for c in site.categories %}
        <li>
            <h3>
                {{ c[0] }}
            </h3>
            <ul>
                {% for p in c[1] %}
                    <li>
                        <a href="{{ p.url | relative_url }}">
                            {{ p.title }}
                        </a>
                    </li>
                {% endfor %}
            </ul>
        </li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

Result

  • abc
    • My title
    • My next title
  • def
    • Another title
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Thanks a lot.
The first option came in handy for me!

The cycle is not used, since posts are displayed in the layout, where the post blocks are different from each other.

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