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Load posts via AJAX without draft status

admin-ajax.php is treated as part of the admin, so protected statuses will be included. To solve this just explicitly define post_status as publish to only get published posts: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘project’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’ ); Or, better yet, consider using the REST API for AJAX requests, instead of the aging admin-ajax.php approach. … Read more

How to figure out correct wp_options to have autoload=’yes’

WP-Rocket was deactivated, but the wp-content/object-cache.php file was still present. This file redefined the wp_cache_add in such a way that the method didn’t work, so all requests to get a single option value were resulting in a query to the wp_options table. I deleted the wp-content/object-cache.php file and the page response time dropped to 2 … Read more

Sorting a custom post type in pre_get_posts

You can add a filter on posts_clauses to; left join additional columns for each meta filter add order by clause base on those column values. Something like below should work, assuming your meta key is start_date and the value has the actual date format Y-m-d and your post type is talks add_filter( ‘posts_clauses’, function ($clauses, … Read more

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