Don’t try to make WP_Query, or SQL, do this. In the backend, don’t save artist_last_name save something like artist_sort_name instead, and set it to either first or last name accordingly, then sort on that normalized key. To sort conditionally with WP_Query— that is, to ignore my advise above and try to make WP_Query/SQL do this– … Read more
The first post doesn’t get counted because you have this in your if statement: 0 !== $wp_query->current_post According to The Codex on WP_Query: (available during The Loop) Index of the post currently being displayed. Being an index of the array, arrays always start off at 0 as it’s first item. So by having that in … Read more
Try: $rating = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘ratings_score’, false); var_dump($rating); You will notice that you get an array, even if your ratings_score is 2. To wit: array(1) { [0]=> string(1) “2” } That will never equal 2 so your condition will never work. The third parameter of get_post_meta() if set to true will collapse that array to a … Read more
You are using the_post_thumbnail() which will echo the actual thumbnail. You should use get_the_post_thumbnail() if you want the value to be returned, not echoed. So, change: $slide_img = the_post_thumbnail(); To: $slide_img = get_the_post_thumbnail(); You should also, as Matt points out, make sure you are using the correct meta field names and check if the values … Read more
Why wouldn’t you just pull them in the order you need instead of reversing the array? $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, // correct key is posts_per_page, not numberposts ‘orderby’ => ‘date’ ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘post_parent’ => $post->ID ); $attachments = get_posts( $args );
A custom template for one specific category should be named category-slug.php where “slug” is the WP slug for the category. WordPress will automatically use this file to display the archive for that one category. You could also name it using the ID of the category. If your category is “legacy-posts”, then your template file should … Read more
This seems to work: while( have_posts() ): the_post(); the_content(); endwhile; $my_query = new WP_Query(‘page_id=40’); while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?> <div class=”entry”> <?php the_content(‘read more »’); ?> </div> <?php endwhile;
The title of question is inaccurate. I think you don’t want to escape first post, instead you want to exclude current post. You can use the post__not_in argument in WP_Query. $args = array( ‘s’ => ‘searchTerm’ ); //Check if we are in a post of any type if( is_singular() ) { $post = get_queried_object(); $args[‘post__not_in’] … Read more
Use pre_get_posts instead.. function my_archive_query_override( $query ) { if ( $query->is_archive() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘orderby’, ‘rand’ ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘my_archive_query_override’ ); For that user selectable part, you can use AJAX to accomplish that.
There are many choices here, and it is all up to you what you want to achieve and how you want to achieve it. My idea would be to use the templates available to avoid a lot of if else conditional statement. The Template Hiearchy makes provision for templates for terms, taxonomy-{$taxonomy}-{$term}.php, so you could … Read more