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26th Oct '23
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Nested Queries in Bricks – Posts Grouped by Published Years and Categories

In the past we showed how posts could be grouped by years in Bricks.

This Pro tutorial takes it further by grouping posts by categories which are further grouped by years.

The year headings will be dynamic - in the sense they will only be the ones in which there is at least 1 published post. Also, only the categories that contain at least 1 published post will be output.

Bricks offers unparalleled power when it comes to queries, not available in other systems/builders.

When done, the structure would look like this:

Step 1

Let us first create a custom query type called "Published Years" to which we feed in an array of all the years in which a post was published in descending order.

Add the following in child theme's functions.php or a code snippets plugin:

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