I found this question when looking how to do this without the post object. My additional research turned up this slick technique: $text = apply_filters(‘the_excerpt’, get_post_field(‘post_excerpt’, $post_id));
This will display the title of the page when a static page is set to show posts. E.g. I show posts on my homepage… It’ll do nothing. If I, say, show posts on page titled News… It’ll show News in H1. This is used so that the title of the page is shown, whenever posts … Read more
I’ve run into this problem with PageNavi before. My solution is to hijack the $wp_query variable temporarily and then reassign it after closing the loop. An exmaple: <?php $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; $args=array( ‘post_type’=>’post’, ‘cat’ => 6, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘paged’=>$paged ); $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= null; $wp_query = new WP_Query($args); /* … Read more
Correct way of getting the total number of posts is: <?php $count = $custom_posts->found_posts; ?> http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Properties Edit: acknowledging @Kresimir Pendic’s answer as probably correct. post_count is the count of posts for that particular page, while found_posts is the count for all available posts that meets the requirements of the query without pagination. Thank you for … Read more
You can use carousel javascript to get the desired output. There are various carousel available, you can use some thing like jcarousel. Download the js and css from the jcarousel website and en-queue it in your theme to use it. Note : You will have to manage the dependencies of it with jQuery. Let me … Read more
get_permalink() is only really useful for single pages and posts, and only works inside the loop. The simplest way I’ve seen is this: global $wp; echo home_url( $wp->request ) $wp->request includes the path part of the URL, eg. /path/to/page and home_url() outputs the URL in Settings > General, but you can append a path to … Read more
The Problem By default, in any given context, WordPress uses the main query to determine pagination. The main query object is stored in the $wp_query global, which is also used to output the main query loop: if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); When you use a custom query, you create … Read more