You’re looking in WordPress core files for the cause of the PHP notice, which is a waste of time, as 1) I doubt you’ve found a new bug in WordPress, and 2) you don’t want to modify WordPress core files to fix a theme or plugin issue, and 3) the error is caused by a … Read more
offset is one of the arguments that you can pass to WP_Query, so it belongs in the $args array: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘category_name’ => ‘category’, ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘showposts’ => 4, ‘offset’ => 4, ); PS: $wp_query is a reserved variable used by the main query. When creating your … Read more
If you only wish to effect the one, single query then just can pass the offset argument through the arguments array. $offset = 1; $ppp = 3; if ( $query->is_paged ) { $page_offset = $offset + ( ($query->query_vars[‘paged’]-1) * $ppp ); } blog_items = array( ‘post_type’=> ‘post’, ‘paged’ => $paged, ‘posts_per_page’=> $ppp, ‘status’ => ‘publish’, … Read more
I messed around with the code some more, and my particular issue actually ended up relating to the original if statement parameters. Changing the condition to check the home page for queries to if ( $query->is_home() && ! $query->is_main_query() ) { return; } and else { //This is the first page. Just use the offset… … Read more
posts_per_page => -1 is equivalent to ‘nopaging’ => true, which basically means no LIMIT clause is used at all. The workaround is to set posts_per_page to a large number. This is a limitation of the LIMIT syntax itself: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html
Here’s your code wrapped up in a plugin. The important thing is that it prepare()s the input, so the query is safe. You can define 2 arguments: Offset & Limit. Those are basically just the SQL LIMIT. If you don’t have any use for the plugin, just deactivate it, as it won’t do anything – … Read more
get_term_by returns an object, try passing $term->slug to your query instead.
Here is a concept that you can try out to exclude 5 posts per category each from category 3 and 5 where posts are excluded that belongs to category 9 and either of the before mentioned categories. Here is the function: (CAVEAT: Requires PHP 5.4+ as I used new short array syntax. Change as needed) … Read more
The problem of your code is that $wp_query is a global variable. Once the sidebar is loaded via a function (dynamic_sidebar) you need to globalize that variable before use. However, once you are in the single view the current_post is always 0. You have to run another query, loop it, and check the every post … Read more
i use this code in my portfolio http://pocketapps.co/ <?php $args = array( //your argument code ); query_posts($args);?> <ul> <?php $ls=0; while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <?php if($ls%2==0): echo ‘</li><li>’; endif; ?> <div class=”app”> //your code here </div> <?php $ls++; endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?> </ul>