You’ve got the unnecessary array involved around clauses. The correct code is ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, ‘awards_clause’ => array( // clause ‘key’ => ‘awards’, ‘compare’ => ‘EXISTS’, ), ‘points_clause’ => array( // clause ‘key’ => ‘points’, ‘compare’ => ‘EXISTS’, ), ), ‘orderby’ => array( ‘awards_clause’ => ‘DESC’, ‘points_clause’ => ‘DESC’, ),
Get link which associated with a specific category and tag
It’s everything OK with get_posts() since it creates the single WP_Query instance per call. You can check the query by creating that instance: <?php $test_query = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, // any number, does not matter ‘post__in’ => $ids, // should be an array! ) ); echo $test_query->request; Adding ‘meta_query’ … Read more
Weird orderby => post__in issue
Create a new query in function.php to filter blog posts
For the left side you could do this, <?php $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, ‘paged’ => get_query_var(‘paged’) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1, ); $loop = new WP_Query( $args ); // add custom function before loop, so you can apply excerpt filter only to this case do_action(‘my_custom_pre_loop_action’); // is url parameter set, if … Read more
How do I exclude recent post from recent post php widget
Thank you to Tom J Nowell for pointing me to using WP_Query instead of get_posts. With WP_Query you have the entire WP_Query object to reference. So something like the following gives the actual mysql query of the args I was using. // these same args also worked with get_posts() $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, … Read more
A smarter way to display multiple loops inside a page template
Order posts by custom field DATE value