From a naming standpoint it seems that the term “filter” would be more appropriate since you are filtering by criteria first and then a sort (directional) is applied when you order. But that’s more a naming convention standpoint… From a code structure if you are using the check_for_popular() method in several places then it makes … Read more
If I understand you, I believe that the following will do what you need: function orderby_mod_wpse_140999($orderby) { remove_action(‘posts_orderby’,’orderby_mod_wpse_140999′); global $wpdb; return $orderby.”, {$wpdb->posts}.post_modified DESC”; } add_filter(‘posts_orderby’,’orderby_mod_wpse_140999′); $args = array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘premium’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ ); $q = new WP_Query($args); var_dump($q->request); The key names may be wrong and it may be (probably … Read more
I’m not entirely 100% on the order you are looking to achieve, but I think you need to spend a little more time with the documentation for WP_Query. An orderby array takes the name of a column in the wp_posts table OR meta_value or meta_value_num as the key, not the name of the custom field … Read more
I prefer to use WP_Query (for more info read “When should you use WP_Query vs query_posts() vs get_posts()?“), try this way: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘soiree’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘orderby’ => ‘date_de_concert’, // you don’t need ‘meta_key’ => ‘date_de_concert’ when using meta_query //’meta_key’ => ‘date_de_concert’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘meta_query’ => array( … Read more
So I think there’s two solutions to this. Precalculate this value. I would suggest looking in to this if you can. Maybe hook into the post save hook and do a simple operation to save calculated price in a new meta value. This saves the below complicated code. It is possible to do this with … Read more
I believe Milo is right, it’s probably a filter affecting this. Ajax requests look like admin requests (that is, is_admin() returns true), so it’s possible that something is checking if is_admin() and adding the filter in those cases. You can set ‘suppress_filters’ => true in your args array and it will probably work. Note that … Read more
You have to use the posts_orderby filter to do this at the mo, eg function wpse159469_posts_orderby( $orderby, $query ) { return implode( ‘ DESC,’, explode( ‘,’, str_replace( array(‘ ASC’, ‘ DESC’ ), ”, $orderby ) ) ) . ‘ DESC’; } then around your query: add_filter( ‘posts_orderby’, ‘wpse159469_posts_orderby’, 10, 2 ); $query = new WP_Query( … Read more
Show all parents and children in custom post type in right order
You are right that you can’t have WordPress order the retrieved posts randomly. So you’ll have to do that yourself after you have retrieved the array of post objects. Let’s call that $my_posts. Because you don’t know how many of the posts in that array are featured, you will have to loop through them to … Read more
You can do some tricky thing with PHP. Here is the algorithm you could use. Query posts to get posts as alphabetical order. for/while loop starts. $t = Get first character of the title string. $temp = ” empty string. if $t != $temp echo $t. set $t = $temp. endfor/endwhile. Hope it make sense. … Read more