Please Try This To Get Post in DESC order $args = array( ‘orderby’ => ‘title’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘author’ =>’authorName’, ); $query = new WP_Query( $args ); // The Loop if ( $query ->have_posts() ) { echo ‘<ul>’; while ( $query ->have_posts() ) { $query ->the_post(); echo ‘<li>’ . get_the_title() . ‘</li>’; } echo ‘</ul>’; … Read more
If you are trying to omit posts 1,3,5 from category 3 on your blog, you can use the following code $query = new WP_Query( array(‘cat’ => 3, ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘post__not_in’ => array(1,3,5) ) ); The query results will not show posts with ids 1,3,5 of category 3.
EDIT: Well, it seems the following approach is a bit DB consuming. Pieter Goosen posted a very interesting alternative. Since this approach has already been accepted as a correct answer I don’t know, it it is possible to mark this question still as a duplicate. I flagged my answer so a moderator might have a … Read more
How can I add recent posts to menu like mashable
After a lot of guess work and research I’ve managed to come up with a simple solution. function column_orderby( $vars ) { $vars[‘orderby’] = ‘date’; $vars[‘order’] = ‘desc’; return $vars; } add_filter( ‘request’, ‘column_orderby’ ); This will sort all of the columns by ‘date’ as well as order them by ‘desc’! Hope it helps anyone … Read more
You can use a tax query with include_children set to false: $query = new WP_Query( array( ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘category’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => ‘your-category-slug’, ‘include_children’ => false, ), ), ) );
First: Indent your code consistently, your code editor should do this automatically, if it doesn’t, you should change, I can recommend Sublime Text as a free option, but there are hundreds of others Don’t spam PHP tags, <?php echo ‘you’; ?><?php echo ‘ dont ‘; ?><?php echo ‘need ‘;?><?php echo ‘this’; ?>, when <?php echo … Read more
You may need to html entity decode that title. Similar to the issue found here. Try this: get_page_by_title( html_entity_decode(‘The #1 Reason to Buy Right Now – THE MONEY!!’), OBJECT, ‘post’, ));
You can use either GET or POST requests to achieve that functionality without using any AJAX (which, in fact, does the same but uses JS to process requests). You need to add ?name_of_var=value after trailing slash on labels that link to different queries. Basically, your ‘Coca-Cola’ link has to look this way: site.com/products/?brand=cocacola After that, … Read more
I used the following in my child theme ‘functions.php’ to get posts by category name. You can also use category ID number but that didn’t work for me. add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘ad_filter_categories’); function ad_filter_categories($query) { if ($query->is_main_query() && is_home()) { $query->set(‘category_name’,’tips’); } }