Recent posts headlines. How to optimize the loop

Instead of looping through each category and getting the posts for each, you can do it all in one query like this:

$categories = array('8', 17, 23, 423);
$args = array( 'category__in' => $categories, 'numberposts' => 20 );
$recent_posts = get_posts($args);

Cheers.

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