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How to put posts in pages using query posts

get_posts may be easier for you to use: $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => 5, ‘category’ => ‘3’ ); $myposts = get_posts( $args ); foreach( $myposts as $post ) : setup_postdata($post); ?> <div <?php post_class(); ?> id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” style=”padding-bottom:5px;”> <h2><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/22878/<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> <div class=”post_meta”><?php twentyten_posted_on(); … Read more

query_posts thumbnail condition

the two single quote marks (after the number 1) in this line (of the top posted code section) seem to be causing the error – there should only be one single quote; shown below: query_posts(‘orderby=date&cat=” . $cat . “&order=ASC&posts_per_page=-1’); it is just puzzling that your other code (with the same error) alledegly does work (?) … Read more

Add class to current post in query_post

save the main current post id into a variable and compare it in the loop with the current post id; example: <?php $this_post = $post->ID; ?> <?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?> <?php foreach(get_the_category() as $category) { $cat = $category->cat_ID; } query_posts(‘orderby=date&cat=” . $cat . “&order=desc&posts_per_page=-1’); while( have_posts() ) : ?> <span<?php if( $this_post == $post->ID … Read more

How do I add a timezone offset to this query?

Is WP set to that -6 offset you need? In that case try date_i18n() to generate your date instead of date().

Custom query looking at multiple custom fields and properly sorting

Though it might take some tweaking you can use the ‘orderby’ parameter on multiple values. The difficulty here is more in terms of logic, for example July 3 (date value) and the number 10 (meta value) do not really relate to one another, this would cause problems if not formatted correctly. You best bet is … Read more

Trouble highlighting correct menu parent with wp_nav_menu classes while viewing “single posts”

This works for me: Create a Page called “Blog” and in Settings > Reading, set the Blog Page to be the Posts page. Create a WordPress menu and add to it my Blog Page, Category 1 and Category 2 Navigate to one of the posts in Category 1 Category 1 is set as “current-post-parent” in … Read more

query for filtering published posts?

You can add this to the WHERE clause, just after your filter by post_date: AND post_status = “publish”

How to assign a post to a post parrent?

Posts & Pages are “built in” Custom Post Types. So something that was delivered as a pre-configuration when WP was installed. There’s also other built in stuff like Tags & Categories which are basically nothing other than custom taxonomies. And you’re lucky: You can simply use the API and add your own, hierarchical custom “post” … Read more

Script that gets the first tag of post and query all other posts with the same tag

the query expects the tag slug, not the tag name: $tag = $tag->slug . ‘ ‘; and there is an error in the query syntax; corrected: query_posts(‘tag=’.$tag.’&posts_per_page=-1′); edit: full code rearranged: $posttags = get_the_tags(); if ($posttags) { foreach($posttags as $tag) { $tag = $tag->slug; break; } query_posts(‘tag=’.$tag.’&posts_per_page=-1′); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <p><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/27106/<?php the_permalink(); … Read more

query_post problem

// Category should be ‘cat’ <?php $args = array( ‘cat’ => $cat, ‘orderby’ => ‘post_date’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘post_type’ => ‘blog’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ ); ?>

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