You’re not actually using the $_GET[‘orderby’]-value anywhere. What you’re doing in your code is ordering by the text_date-meta value, always. If you want to order by date by default, and when $_GET[‘orderby’] is set to default orderby-values or if $_GET[‘orderby_meta’] is set, order by those instead you need to do something like this: if (isset($_GET[‘orderby’]){ … Read more
Override main query for page template
What’s the most efficient way to get two queries based on an if statement?
There’s a couple problems I foresee here. I’m assuming the featured portion is a meta value of some sort. We can run a conditional that will run for all queries on the Front Page but it would override the meta_queries instead of append to them. The hook would look something like this: /** * Modify … Read more
why doesn’t this pre_get_posts code work?
I just found the problem, though I cannot explain why or how things went the way they did – the date to compare events by had the wrong date format: date( ‘d-m-Y’ ) should have been date( ‘Y-m-d’ ). The comparison worked until the update, so something must’ve changed about the way WordPress stores date … Read more
You need to modify the tax_query block of code like below- $q->set( ‘tax_query’, array(array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘product_cat’, ‘field’ => ‘term_id’, // Here it would be ‘term_id’ instead of only ‘ID’. ‘terms’ => $allowedCats, ‘operator’ => ‘IN’ // May be it would be ‘IN’ in stead of ‘NOT IN’. Cause you are passing allowed product categories. … Read more
This might be a quick fix for your custom post type 404 error page. Navigate to Settings > Permalinks, and then click the Save Changes button. Then comeback to check if the links doesn’t give you a 404 error.
You don’t need to add a pre_get_posts filter for ?tag=xyz to work, URLs in WordPress should already work that way. If you can write it as a string and pass it to WP_Query then you can append it to a URL with a ? to add additional query parameters. That is assuming that the main … Read more
Complex query using pre_get_posts