How to fix this insert? Don’t work for me!

Make sure that the value portion of the data parameter’s column=>value pairs must be scalar. If you pass an array (or object) as a value to be inserted you will generate a warning similar to mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given on line 880 in file /var/www/html/wp-includes/wp-db.php”. Rather then above your code … Read more

Include custom table in query

Working code: <?php global $wpdb; $date = date(“Y-m-d”); $querystr = ” SELECT * FROM wp_posts JOIN wp_ftcalendar_events ON wp_posts.ID = wp_ftcalendar_events.post_parent WHERE wp_posts.post_status=”publish” AND wp_posts.post_type=”post” AND wp_ftcalendar_events.start_datetime >= ‘$date’ ORDER BY wp_ftcalendar_events.start_datetime ASC “; $pageposts = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT_K); ?> <?php if ($pageposts): ?> <?php global $post; ?> <?php foreach ($pageposts as $post): ?> <?php setup_postdata($post); … Read more

Run an update query in a function

As David pointed out, wpdb::query() does not allow multiple calls. So yes, it is because of having the “SET @newnum = 0;” before your actual query. This kind of query is simply not possible as the backend prevents that in order to protect against SQL injection attacks. Besides of that, the technique I described in … Read more

WP_Query secondary query failing

Maybe you can try with get_posts() and foreach loop for the second query instead of WP_Query and then you will have something like this: <?php $secondary_query = get_posts(‘category_name=students’); foreach($secondary_query as $secondary_post): echo “<li>” . get_the_title($secondary_post->ID) . “</li>”; endforeach; ?> With above like style you don’t need wp_reset_query() just make sure you pass the post ID … Read more

Query post for today, if no post get the previous one

I think you should make a recursion function that will call itself if there’s no posts found passing new date to query for.. function getDatePosts( $date, $query_args ) { $query_args[‘date_query’] = array( ‘year’ => date( ‘Y’, $date ), ‘mounth’ => date( ‘m’, $date ), ‘day’ => date( ‘d’, $date ) ); $query = new WP_Query( … Read more