You can use a static class property to store a rolling list of posts that are used in previous queries. This method allows you to pass data between classes (widgets, modules, plugins, etc…), but will also work for a procedural workflow. Everything on the page that uses your intermediary class will know what posts to … Read more
Thanks for referencing my solution. You forgot one part though – defining the rewrite of your cpt. From my solution: First get your slugs right when defining your custom post types and taxonomies: for the custom post type it should be basename/%taxonomy_name% and the slug for your taxonomy should be just basename. Dont forget to … Read more
The “Order By Rand() Alternative” method You can check out this article that discuss how to optimize SQL queries when selecting N random rows. It’s called Order By Rand() Alternative method. I’ve used it in one of my previous answers. As far as I understand it, the trick is to introduce a special WHERE condition … Read more
Don’t use an && like that. And don’t use query_posts() in the first place (It’s meant for modifying a query, not performing a separate query!) Instead, do your first selection, then pull out the IDs of the posts in that selection and pass them into the second query. $fruit = get_posts( array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 3, … Read more
This is tough to do programmatically because of potential variations in html and how the tags balance. However, if you were to try, here’s how I’d suggest doing it. First of all, WordPress sets up the post pagination in setup_postdata(), which is called at the end of the_post(). That means you need to get those … Read more
There are some issues with your query $daystogo = “30”; $sql = “UPDATE {$wpdb->posts} SET post_status=”draft” WHERE (post_type=”post” AND post_status=”publish”) AND DATEDIFF(NOW(), post_date) > %d”; $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( $sql, $daystogo ) ); You do not want to untrash trashed posts by declaring them as draft, right? And you really do not want to make every automated … Read more
Use get_query_var(‘page’) instead of get_query_var(‘paged’). Related ticket: #21028
From what i understand, you want to change the post’s modification time whenever a comment is left on your post. For this, you need to hook into the wp_insert_comment hook and update the post’s date manually: add_action(‘wp_insert_comment’,’update_post_time’,99,2); function update_post_time($comment_id, $comment_object) { // Get the post’s ID $post_id = $comment_object->comment_post_ID; // Double check for post’s ID, … Read more
You can postpone the wp_autop filter. WordPress has this filter enabled by default. And it is processing before the shortcode output. remove_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ ); add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’ , 12); Add this to your functions.php and check if the problem persist! See a similar problem here: stray <p> elements
Question How to change the post date to a randomly generated date? Answer This is fairly straightforward. What I did was to create a plugin that upon activation get all the posts, loops through them, generates a random date, and updates the post with that date. <?php /** * Plugin Name: WPSE 259750 Random Dates … Read more