Your can use post_parent parameter for your query. Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query This will change your query to: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘b_books’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, ‘post_parent’ => 0 ); genesis_custom_loop( $args );
How to show custom post count in archive page
How Can I Display the Category Description in a Theme with no Category.php or Archive.php?
Based on Can I exclude a post by meta key using pre_get_posts function? // setting meta in pre_get_posts Query all posts where a meta key does not exist // exists & not exists formatting multiple orderby in pre_get_posts action // how to set multiple ordeby you could perhaps try something like this in your pre_get_posts … Read more
Overriding the template files using a plugin for all themes
The first thing I would do, if I were you, would be to change the data structure so that the location would a hierarchical custom taxonomy where states were parent terms and cities their child terms. Then you could create a custom taxonomy template for your location taxonomy. In this template you’d display list of … Read more
I haven’t tested this, but I found a sample that was close. I have modified it to be similar to what you want. I’m not sure it is 100%, but it should get you really close: add_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’wpse_filter_parents_only’); function wpse_filter_parents_only($query){ if (!is_admin() && is_category(’26’)){ $query->set(‘post_parent’,0); } return $query; } This should update what WP_Query retrieves from … Read more
I thought WordPress was supposed to do all the heavy lifting as far as filtering by categories, tags, authors, etc. It does. Which is why you shouldn’t have done this: $category = get_category( get_query_var( ‘cat’ ) ); $cat_id = $category->cat_ID; $loop = new WP_Query( array( ‘cat’ => $cat_id ) ); In the main template files … Read more
An archive widget, coming from nowhere on my posts and pages
I want to be able to access archives to see how recently a post has been read: How can I do that?