The standard query for posts uses orderby => ‘post_date’ and order => ‘DESC’. The best candidate for arbitrary sort of posts would be orderby => ‘menu_order’ and order => ‘ASC’. The menu_order is not generally used for posts but it is safe to be used. As suggested by Pieter Goosen use action hook pre_get_posts: add_action( … Read more
query_posts is a PHP function, not a javascript function, it’s executed on the server, and the resulting output is sent to the browser. By the time the browser gets the chance to run your if( $(window).width() < 2000 ) { check, it’s already too late. The server has finished its PHP script, sent it across, … Read more
You shouldn’t really need to “exclude” anything. Just make use of the built in loop tracking. WP_Query will “remember” where you left off. For example: if (have_posts()) { while (have_posts()) { the_post(); echo ‘firstpost##’; the_content(); echo ‘##endfirstpost’; break; } } // do some other stuff if (have_posts()) { while (have_posts()) { the_post(); echo ‘otherposts##’; the_content(); … Read more
If you need to skip the current post, you can make use of the offset parameter. The value passed will the amount of posts to skip, so in your case, you would do ‘offset’ => 1, to skip the latest post. Just a note on offset, when you add offset to any query, it breaks … Read more
Note that it might be easier to use get_comments() here, since it’s defined as: function get_comments( $args=”” ) { $query = new WP_Comment_Query; return $query->query( $args ); } If you need the comment url, within your foreach comment loop, you can use: $comment_url = esc_url( get_comment_link( $comment ) ); You can also get the post … Read more
Refer to the WP_Query Codex page for a full list and explanation of parameters. The one you want in this case is post__not_in. $recent = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘works’ ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘post__not_in’ => array( $currentID ) ) );
You simply need the is_sticky() conditional check and then act on that. You would probably still need the is_home() and !is_paged() conditional check to only target stikies on the first page of the home page if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); if ( is_sticky() && is_home() && !is_paged() ) { … Read more
get_the_content and the_author have to be in a loop so you would need to use other functions to get the content you need global $wp_query; $post = $wp_query->post; $page_id = $post->ID; // page ID $page_object = get_page( $page_id ); // page stuff $author_id = $post->post_author; // author ID $page_content = $page_object->post_content; $author_name = get_the_author_meta( ‘display_name’, … Read more
The first use of wp_reset_postdata() is not redundant its unnecessary. Per the codex Use this function to restore the global $post variable of the main query loop after a secondary query loop using new WP_Query. It restores the $post variable to the current post in the main query. So only use it after your secondary … Read more
You need two queries for this. Let’s say the ID of the featured category is 5. Then you set up two queries retrieving 3 posts each: $query1 = new WP_Query( array( ‘cat’ => ‘5’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 3 ) ); $query2 = new WP_Query( array( ‘cat’ => ‘-5’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 3 ) ); Now you have … Read more