The original request that loaded the page you are making the AJAX request from ended as soon as the page was sent to your browser. That connection is closed and it is gone from memory. When you make an AJAX request, it’s a new request, so $wp_query is empty because you haven’t queried anything. You … Read more
1) use posts_per_page to set number of posts 2) your add_action and its associated function needs to be in your theme’s functions.php file, not the template. the pre_get_posts action is the preferred method between the two, use that one.
var_dump($vote_count) should tell you what type $vote_count is. Probably you’re getting NULL.
query_posts should only be used for the main loop. Instead, use a new instance of the WP_Query class: $my_query = new WP_Query( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘paged’=> $paged ) ); echo ‘<ul>’; while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post(); if ( $my_query->current_post > 0 && ( $my_query->current_post + 1 ) … Read more
You can filter ‘posts_fields’, check if it is the main query and limit the queried fields to … whatever you need. See WP_Query::get_posts() in /wp-includes/query.php for details and side effects. For debugging the queries I recommend the plugin Debug Bar. If you add … define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, TRUE ); define( ‘SAVEQUERIES’, TRUE ); … to your … Read more
You could do one query for the 4 latest posts excluding the schaft category, then do another query for the latest post in schaft. get the date of the single schaft post and check it against the dates of the other posts as you output them, inserting it in the correct position. EDIT Two loop … Read more
I’ve had a brief look at the plug-in, it offers no hooks to do this, but you could use posts_clauses hook to alter the query. That said my SQL is not good enough to say how (if it’s possible) to convert the ‘human readable’ value to a decimal, prior to sorting. Even if it could, … Read more
The tutorial that Michael Martin posted on Pro Blog Design should help you: http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/load-next-wordpress-posts-with-ajax/
Here you go: <?php wp_list_pages(“meta_key=type&meta_value=web&title_li=&child_of=15&sort_column=ID”); ?> Note the meta_key and meta_value in the syntax and reuse it.
If you don’t need a “tag”, I have seen “Featured” items be featured by some a post meta key. I always need a way to feature items, so yesterday I wrote a plugin that will add a metabox to any post type you’d like, with a simple checkbox. Also has columns and quickedit capabilities. https://github.com/helgatheviking/Featured-Item-Metabox … Read more