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Replace query_posts with pre_get_posts

Without seeing the broken code it is hard to say, but your filter should look something like this: function pregp_wpse_97354($qry) { if (is_front_page() && is_main_query() && is_user_logged_in()) { $qry->set(‘cat’,2); $qry->set(‘posts_per_page’,5); $qry->set(‘orderby’,’date’); $qry->set(‘order’,’DESC’); } } add_action(‘pre_get_posts’,’pregp_wpse_97354′); You mentioned something about the user being logged in, which your code does not check for, but I threw that … Read more

is_category in pre_get_posts results in php notices

is_category(‘category-name’) won’t work until after the query is run. If we check source code where those notices are generated, we can see that it’s using get_queried_object, which gets populated with the results of the main query, and at the pre_get_posts stage will still be empty. As an alternate, check the contents of $query->query_vars, which will … Read more

Archive by custom post type and custom date field

Thanks to Milo for helping me through this. Here is the code that worked for me. function custom_events_query( $query ) { if ( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_archive && !is_admin()&& is_post_type_archive(‘events’) && $query->query_vars[‘m’]!=”) { $query->set( ‘post_type’, ‘events’ ); $query->set( ‘meta_key’, ‘event_date’ ); $query->set( ‘orderby’, ‘meta_value’ ); $query->set( ‘order’, ‘DESC’ ); $query->set( ‘post_per_page’, 10 ); unset($query->query_vars[‘year’]); unset($query->query_vars[‘monthnum’]); unset($query->query_vars[‘day’]); … Read more

pre_get_posts and the blog page

Your blog page is actually your home page, so you need to use is_home(). For the static frontpage, is_front_page() would be used EDIT Sorry for being confusing :-). This how it works when a static frontpage is set The page set as your frontpage is actaully just a cover page. When you think of a … Read more

Using Sessions to Filter Posts – bad thing?

As far as their use within WordPress, there is no native method to use $_SESSION. This means it is entirely on you to mitigate any security issues this presents. Other problems depend on how your session data is saved. One problem I’m aware of is when the allocated memory for memcache is reached, it will … Read more

pre_get_posts all posts and custom post type with certain tag

You have a couple of issues here is_home() should be a method of $query, so it should become $query->is_home() The value to the field parameter should be term_id, not id. id works, so will any crap passed as value because if you look at the source codes, the source only checks for slug and name, … Read more

Date Query to Pull Current and Future Posts

I wonder if you mean this kind of date_query: $query->set( ‘date_query’, [ [ ‘after’ => ‘today midnight’, ‘column’ => ‘post_date_gmt’, ‘inclusive’ => true, ], ] ); where we use the after attribute. Here the after date will be calculated by WP_Date_Query as: gmdate( ‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, strtotime( ‘today midnight’, current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) ) ); With the … Read more

Single page theme that uses pages for the content

How-to simplify your life I’d go a fairly simpler route: Add a “main/parent” page Apply your template there Add “child” pages to this main page Alter the query to include them Code example as plugin for a quick test Here’s an (untested) plugin that modifies the query args to not only reduce it to a … Read more

tax_query not working on main query

Well it seems after digging in to the code, tax_query is being blocked on single post/page pages which is why I’m running in to this issue. If you see the ability to run tax_query in all circumstances as beneficial, please voice your opinion on trac. See ticket here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24819 I managed to get around this … Read more

Include custom post type in “all posts”

Filter pre_get_posts: add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘wpse_98213_add_post_types_to_tax_query’ ); /** * Let WP search for custom post types on taxonomy archives. * * @wp-hook pre_get_posts * @param object $query * @return object */ function wpse_98213_add_post_types_to_tax_query( $query ) { if ( ! is_main_query() or ! is_tax( ‘your_taxonomy_name’ ) ) return $query; $query->set( ‘post_type’, array ( ‘portfolio’, ‘post’ ) ); … Read more

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