Assuming you are using WordPress v3.x (as I don’t remember how this works in earlier versions) this is what you need to do if starting from scratch: Create a “Page“ and call it “Home Page” (or whatever.) Create another Page and call it “Blog” (or whatever.) In the admin console select the “Settings” > “Reading” … Read more
You could also use ‘post_parent’ => 0. All unattached attachments are assigned ‘post_parent’ = 0. Here is where I found that. I’m sure that there is a more authoritative resource somewhere, but this worked for me. 🙂
You need an orderby argument. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘custom_advert’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 2, ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’ ); That should pull posts in a random order and stop after retrieving the first two, hence two random posts.
is_category() does this: (…) Checks if a Category archive page is being displayed. (…) One line below on the codex page you find: To test if a post is in a category use in_category(). So just use the latter.
I guess you have: the_content(); wp_link_pages(); in your theme file. So you can instead try the following (PHP 5.4+): /** * Append the wp_link_pages to the content. */ ! is_admin() && add_filter( ‘the_content’, function( $content ) { if( in_the_loop() ) { $args = [ ‘echo’ => false ]; // <– Adjust the arguments to your … Read more
query_posts() is useful in cases when there is no main query: calls to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, wp-admin/admin-post.php or wp-login.php for example. Yes, you can achieve the same results there without query_posts() and slightly less compact code instead. But if you don’t have to care about side effects, using query_posts() is acceptable.
Here’s a simplified combination of both @PieterGoosen and @ialocin fine answers by using the loop_start hook: add_action( ‘loop_start’, function( $q ) { if( $q->is_main_query() && $q->is_category( ‘car’ ) ) usort( $q->posts, function( $a, $b ){ return -1 * has_tag( ‘bmw’, $a ) + 1 * has_tag( ‘bmw’, $b ); }); }, 10, 2 ); We … Read more
You ask: is query_posts really slower than some secondary query… The fact is that if you’re calling query_posts() from a theme then it already is a secondary query. WordPress has already queried the database once to get a certain page then it hits your query_posts() function and queries the database again creating a second query … Read more
I am not sure about the issue, but my advice would be to try and refactor this to use get_posts() and template tags that can work without $post global variable. Basically do not touch globals at all. Loops in front-end are almost civilized nowadays, but internals of admin are still very wild. 🙂
You need something like this in you functions.php file, I’m using the action Pieter suggested. function add_custom_post_type_to_query( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘post_type’, array(‘post’, ‘article’) ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘add_custom_post_type_to_query’ ); You can read more about the pre_get_posts in the docs.