You can use wordpress query args options. I hope this will help you. // WP_Query arguments $args = array ( ‘nopaging’ => false, ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘5’, ); // The Query $query = new WP_Query( $args );
To at least answer the title of your question, the pre_get_posts filter may be useful. From the Codex: This hook is called after the query variable object is created, but before the actual query is run. The pre_get_posts action gives developers access to the $query object by reference (any changes you make to $query are … Read more
In general, I’d recommend to read about $wpdb in detail in the Codex. Some notes: Never use the default wp_ prefix. Never set a hard coded prefix. It will be set during installation and should later be added using $wpdb->prefix. But: Prefixes can be changed with the following SQL command. “RENAME table wp_posts TO {$wpdb->prefix}posts;” … Read more
I’ve found that passing post_type doesn’t restrict searches to that type, but just adds that type to the array it already searches. What you can do to build complex search queries is hook pre_get_posts and do a little query manipulation. For a simple example, first I add my own query var to pass to WordPress’s … Read more
You’re going about this the right way … Your query is like a loop … so to limit total images you’d need to add them all to an array first, and then how would you determine how to limit the total eg what if one page had 50 images and the next page had 1 … Read more
Exclude posts with taxonomy term from appearing on home page query
category pagination got broken suddenly
Dynamically adjust single-posttype.php query, based on current taxonomies
Another perspective. Instead of using the two custom-post-type ‘team’ and ‘player’. You can use them as a single custom-post-type ‘participant’. Participant itself is a hierarchical post type, teams as the first level and player as it’s child. That way there wouldn’t be a player with more than 1 teams. If you are doing your own … Read more
Why orderbyb meta_value_num won’t affect the generated SQL Query order?