Get rid of query_posts() in your template file. Instead, you need to filter the main query object, via pre_get_posts. The following function will exclude the specified category and change posts per page for the main blog posts index: function wpse102566_pre_get_posts( $query ) { if ( is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘category__not_in’, array( ‘103’ ) … Read more
Your query would be something like: $post_ids = $wpdb->get_col( “SELECT DISTINCT post_id FROM {$wpdb->prefix}wti_like_post WHERE user_id = {$author->ID}” ); Then you can pass that array of post IDs as the post__in argument of WP_Query: $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘post__in’ => $post_ids );
You are improperly using query_posts. Don’t use query_posts, ever. If you want to iterate over an array of posts, use get_posts and assign the results to a var that isn’t a reserved global. $my_posts = get_posts( array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘paged’ => 1, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ‘order’ => ‘desc’ ) ); foreach( … Read more
It is not that hard to enforce a hard limit on results: add_action( ‘post_limits’, function($limit) { $limits = explode(‘,’,$limit); if (isset($limits[1]) && 2000 < $limits[‘1’]) { $limits[1] = 2000; } $limit = implode(‘,’,$limits); return $limit; } ); I would not be surprised if that does not solve your problem though. Just searching over that many … Read more
You could make your own excerpt function: function wpse125086_custom_strip_tags_excerpt() { global $post; $p_obj = get_post($post->ID); $p_exp = $p_obj->post_excerpt; $p_exp = apply_filters(‘the_excerpt’, $p_exp); $un_p = array(“<p>”, “</p>”); $p_exp = str_replace($un_p, “”, $p_exp); echo $pcont; } But generally I’m thinking instead of transforming to get_posts() it might be better to go with WP_Query. In this case the … Read more
The recent addition of date query makes it possible to use very elaborate conditions, see Date Parameters documentation in Codex. As for outputting certain set of posts the simplest way might be to create dedicated page with custom page template for it.
Query Posts From Multiple Post Types
query_posts() should not be used in general and especially when dealing with pagination. You need to be making adjustments before template is reached, usually via pre-get-posts hook, on which there is plenty of material on site.
why is pre_get_posts not working
When query iterates it holds the number of current post (zero-based) in current_post property: echo $wp_query->current_post % 2 ? ‘cat1’ : ‘catA’;