How can I link to the first post of each category in a dynamically created category list in wordpress?

<?php $postslist = get_posts('category=1&numberposts=1&order=DESC&orderby=post_date');      foreach ($postslist as $post) :      setup_postdata($post); ?>      <h1><strong><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">LINK</a></strong></h1> <?php endforeach; ?> You can configure that to do a lot of stuff, depending on the variables in http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts. Good luck!

Thanks for the help daboo. I've done quite a bit of manipulation with get_post() already. What's you show is easy enough to do, but what I'd really like is a list of categories that operates this way without me having to hand-code ( ``get_posts('category=1&numberposts=1&order=DESC&orderby=post_date');'' in your example) the list. I suppose the solution to that would be a similar foreach using each category id from the function: get_all_category_ids(); and then do a conditional inside that for categories that I don't want to include. While your code wasn't exactly what I needed, it may have helped me see the forest for the trees.

Finally got something working. I had to do the runaround with wp_list_categories because I'm using a category ordering plugin (My_Category_Order) which only affects the order of categories when called by that function. Ended up using the following code: [?php $categories = wp_list_cats('orderby=order&echo=0&style=none&exclude=' .$exclude_categories. ''); $category_list = strip_tags($categories, "[br]"); $cat_array = explode("[br /]", $category_list); foreach ($cat_array as $category_name) : $postslist = query_posts('category_name=' .$category_name. '&numberposts=1'); foreach ($postslist as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?] [li][a href="[?php the_permalink() ?]" rel="bookmark"][?php echo $category_name; ?][/a][/li] [?php endforeach; endforeach;?] (I couldn't figure out how to post html code here, so I replaced all the < and > with [ and ] ; the exclude_categories bit is a string variable that has a list of categories I don't want to display in this list)