# What would be the best way to display the last topics excerpts and categories via the API?

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**Created:** [2018 年1 月 1 日 16:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-would-be-the-best-way-to-display-the-last-topics-excerpts-and-categories-via-the-api/77061 "2018-01-01T16:30:46Z")\
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作者： ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
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Greeting.  
I’m looking to display the last topics of my Discourse forum on a Wordpress website.  
I’ve made a WP plugin which grabs /latest.json data and displays them to my WP users in a widget.

However, besides the title, view/reply counts and most active posters, I’d like to display an excerpt from every topic as well as their category.

I need another request for the categories, but what about the excerpts? Should I do one additional API request for **every** topic in order to make an excerpt?

If I want to display the 5 last topics with an excerpt and the category, that would be like 7 requests? Do you think that would slow significantly the WP page loading?

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