Since there are so many upvotes to the question, although the issues of multithreading are just too broad for a format of an answer, I will try to explain why you should not use wordpress API in a multithreaded way…. TL;DR – PHP is not assumed to be multithreading ready, the problem is not PHP … Read more
The difference between get_posts & WP_Query You can view get_posts() as a slimmed down WP_Query. In fact looking at the source: //… prepares query array $r $get_posts = new WP_Query; return $get_posts->query($r); get_posts() use WP_Query, but only returns an array of posts – nothing more. Furthermore it sets: $r[‘no_found_rows’] = true; Normally (by default with … Read more
the_posts_navigation() is simply a wrapper function for get_the_posts_navigation() which issimply a wrapper function for paginate_links. The first two functions uses the the same exact parameters that is being used by paginate_links and actually passes it to the latter function as well get_the_posts_navigation() and the_posts_navigation() is good new functions as it eliminates a lot of custom … Read more
You will need to loop over those posts and then do more queries for each post, repeating until you find no posts in a query. e.g. function get_posts_children($parent_id){ $children = array(); // grab the posts children $posts = get_posts( array( ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘post_type’ => ‘microsite’, ‘post_parent’ => $parent_id, ‘suppress_filters’ => false … Read more
get_posts passes the heavy lifting off to WP_Query and if you look at the source of that class you can see that there are only a limited number of options with that fields argument. There are only three options in that switch— ids, id=>parent, and the default case, everything. You can use the posts_fields filter … Read more
To query posts by custom fields you can use the ‘meta_query’ parameter <?php $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘payment’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘bookingref’, ‘value’ => ‘the_value_you_want’, ‘compare’ => ‘LIKE’ ), array( ‘key’ => ‘customerref’, ‘value’ => ‘the_value_you_want’, ‘compare’ => ‘LIKE’ ) ); query_posts($args); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> you can’t use get_post_meta … Read more
Yes, this is the correct syntax: $args = array( ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ ); query_posts( $args ); However plugins can keep this from working properly. Try disabling ALL plugins and see if that helps. Two known plugins which keep orderby=rand from working are Post Type Order and WP_Sticky Also, if you have Post … Read more
The question has already been asked and the answer has been posted too, How to display related posts from same category? Add this code inside your single.php after a loop wherever you want to show related post, <?php $related = get_posts( array( ‘category__in’ => wp_get_post_categories($post->ID), ‘numberposts’ => 5, ‘post__not_in’ => array($post->ID) ) ); if( $related … Read more
$latest_cpt = get_posts(“post_type=yourcpt&numberposts=1”); echo $latest_cpt[0]->ID The only cheaper way than above, I can think of, would be to write your own SQL query to just return the one post and only the column ID.
In all probability you are using a custom taxonomy, and not the build-in category taxonomy. If this is the case, then the category parameters won’t work. You will need a tax_query to query posts from a specific term. (Remember, get_posts uses WP_Query, so you can pass any parameter from WP_Query to get_posts) $args = [ … Read more