You must first do the 4 queries for selected categories and while looping through them remember the IDs. Save them in an array. Then when pulling latest posts just add the post__not_in parameter with all the IDs you want to exclude. You need 4 queries that look somewhat like this: $args = array( ‘category_name’ => … Read more
To get a specific post in WordPress, you can use the get_post() function and get_the_category() to get the categories associated with it. You can then use the code found in this answer to dump the SQL queries used. <?php $post_ID = 7; $the_post = get_post( $post_ID ); $the_category = get_the_category( $post_ID );
I agree with @Simon Blackbourn, but for arguments sake, here’s one technique: $data = get_user_meta( $user_id ); $data = wp_list_filter( $data, array( ‘ive-read-this’ ) ); $keys = array_keys( $data );
Try the $query_vars property: $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); $query_arguments = $the_query->query_vars; Which should return an associative array of query variables. To test: var_dump( $query_arguments );
From the codex: <?php $wpdb->update( $table, $data, $where, $format = null, $where_format = null ); ?> In your exampe ‘ CURDATE()’ is simply a string, not a MySQL function (or something else). The correct syntax for php’s date() is: date( [format], [timestamp] ) Try this: $this->wpdb->update( ‘wp_competitors’, array( ‘results’ => $tips, // json ‘update_time’ => … Read more
example: <?php query_posts(‘posts_per_page=5&order=ASC&post_status=future’); if ( !have_posts() ) query_posts(‘posts_per_page=5&order=DESC&post_status=publish’); if( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
/** * Define a new function that uses $args and wp_parse_args() */ function explain_parse_args( $args ) { $defaults = array ( ‘text’ => ‘wp_parse_args() merges $args into $defaults’, ‘before’ => “”, ‘after’ => ” \n”, ‘echo’ => TRUE ); // Parse incomming $args into an array and merge it with $defaults $args = wp_parse_args( $args, … Read more
WHERE post_status NOT IN (‘auto-draft’,’trash’) Looks like you can add that to your base query. /* — Preparing your query — */ $query = “SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status NOT IN (‘auto-draft’,’trash’) “; This is only barely a WordPress question. Why are you not using core functions for this? Also, NOT IN is not … Read more
You don’t need to use query_posts function. It could be done without it. Use setup_postdata function to set up global post data. $sql = ” SELECT p.* FROM orders_items oi INNER JOIN products pr ON pr.`post_id` = oi.`product_id` INNER JOIN posts p ON p.`ID` = pr.`post_id` AND p.`post_type` = ‘product’ GROUP BY oi.`product_id` ORDER BY … Read more
MySQL can do math but can’t pass it through query_posts like that, or any WordPress’ post query functions, which depend upon WP_Query. They will literally look for a table/column named, in your case, “meta_value_num / date”. To do it in SQL I believe– aka., this is untested– you’d have to do something like this: SELECT … Read more