Limit entries for each category

Question

I have this tag which pulls entries from all categories:

{exp:channel:entries channel="foto" category="1|2|3" limit="15" }
   //content
{/exp:channel:entries}

Is it possible to pull 15 entries per category? So it would result in 45 entries in total?

I want to shuffle it afterwards therfore I don't want to call this tag three times.

Answer 1

If you create a category group with your three categories, you can set the category_group param on your entries loop. This will pull a rounded, even amount of entries from each category in the group. In an example where you have three categories in category_group 1:

{exp:channel:entries
    channel="catburgers"
    category_group="1"
    limit="9"
    orderby="random"}

    {!-- This will output, in random order, 9 entries from the category group, 3 from each category --}

    {title} - Catburger

{/exp:channel:entries}