Sorry guys…I actually inherited this install from someone else. The problem was a plugin (BEEP, https://wordpress.org/plugins-wp/brilliant-easy-exclude-posts/ )…It was causing my meta_queries not to work at all. I’m going to file a report with the plugin folks.
I think it might be very easy for you to get the top 25 based on view count and then get a random selection of 4 from that list. Below is an easy to test query but you would want to replace with just your post_views_count query and remove any rand orderby. // get top … Read more
It seems the normal and expected behaviour to me. meta_query is not a registered query var. You can see a list of registered query vars, and their relationship with WP_Query in this codex entre. Any other query var you want to use needs to be registered and handled by you. A very quick and general … Read more
Fastest and most efficient SQL query to check if UID exists
No, it does not have to be unique. Whether it’s a good practice to use it this way – that’s another question you can ask that plugin authors. Here’s the scenario: you have a slider in an entry slider has several slides each slide is stored as meta In this case, you will have couple … Read more
If I’ve understood the case correctly your $args should be something like that: $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, // what ever you like ‘paged’ => $page, // page number tracker ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, // or change to custom ‘post_status’ => array( ‘draft’, ‘publish’ ), ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘meta-key’ => ‘pb_match_date’, ‘meta-compare’ => ‘EXISTS’ … Read more
Custom WP_query and integrating into theme file
Custom user query – orderby meta_key (that may not exist)
Efficient way of querying for a “fallback” post?
You can try this <?php $args= array( “post_type” => array(“product”, “post”, “page”), “cat” => ‘-124,-52’, “meta_query” => array( array( “key” => ‘include_newsletter_feed’, ‘value’ => “”, ‘compare’ => ‘!=’ ), ), ); $wp_query = new WP_Query($args); ?>