You can filter the orderby part of the query to get what you want (trying to pass it via the orderby parameter will not work, it will be filtered out). This simple example adds the meta_value sort order before the standard title sort order. add_filter( ‘posts_orderby’, ‘wpse15168_posts_orderby’ ); $query = new WP_Query( array( ‘meta_key’ => … Read more
First, some comments on your code: the globals $post and $wpdb are not needed, in any case you can declare them as global $post, $wpdb; I don’t understand your use of this conditional if (is_null($imgID)) you’re using get_term_by with “slug”, but I guess it’s better to do it by “name” The following is a working … Read more
You will need to join four tables to get categories of custom post type “review” wp_term_relationships wp_posts wp_term_taxonomy wp_terms by using following query you can get list of categories applied to your custom post type: SELECT * FROM wp_term_relationships AS tr LEFT JOIN wp_posts AS p ON tr.object_id = p.ID LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tt … Read more
What I can say on your code: 26 loops are really a lot for a page, that page will load very slowly, unless you setup some cache Please, do not use query_posts it is very poor performant when called once, 26 times is performance hell If you set the taxonomy only to show this page, … Read more
Given the standard registration, you should have the following: A post type with the name ‘recipe’ A recipe post archive at example.com/recipe/ Recipe posts with urls that take the form example.com/recipe/helloworldrecipe/ A template archive-recipe.php A template single-recipe.php However, I see this in your registration code: ‘rewrite’ => array(‘slug’ => ”), This suggests what you’re trying … Read more
Hi @George: Depending on how many musicians you expect to have in your database you could either go the full API route (which is generally preferred, whenever it is vialable) if you are going to have a large number of them (thousands?) you could go with some custom SQL to pull exactly the records you … Read more
Changing the URL structure of a post always consists of two parts: writing the new URL in your links, and handling the new structure. Handling the new structure Handling the new structure is easy: because the post name (slug) is enough to identify a post, we can ignore the taxonomy you are using in the … Read more
Right now there are no hooks to do that from a plugin and the function that makes the search query itself is not pluggable which means that the only way to achieve that is to hack core files. Currently there is an open Trac Ticket asking for some kind of hook.
The function you are looking for is get_term() http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_term and the code would look something like this: $term = get_term( 1, ‘category’ );//for example uncategorized category echo ‘count: ‘. $term->count;
Plugin Recommendation I’ve had some great experience with the plugin Custom Post Type Permalinks. Here’s the settings panel that it provides which allows you to define your structure per custom post type. Adding More Permalink Tags If you want to further extend the permalink structure tags for your needs you can take a look at … Read more