TL;DR Template: Performance not so much, semantics however, use hierarchy! TL;DR Query String: Use provided hooks, never edit directly. The Template File Apart from performance, first look at semantics. If you direct your browser to a taxonomy archive, WordPress will look for the following files (straight from the Codex): taxonomy-{taxonomy}-{term}.php – If the taxonomy were … Read more
You have to pass some arguments to new WP_Query or no database request will be sent. Your check … if ($my_query->have_posts()) … will never evaluate to TRUE, because there are no data.
You aren’t looping through the results. Here is your code: $m = new WP_Query( $myquery ); if ( $m->have_posts() ) : $m->the_post();?> <ul><li <?php post_class();?>><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/83409/<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li></ul> <?php endif; wp_reset_postdata(); ?> There is no Loop. You just check for the existence of posts, echo some information about the first one and quit. … Read more
WP_Query::found_posts contains the number of matches to your query without taking into account limit and offset. limit is the max number of posts which can be display in an archive page and the offset depends on the paged parameter and is usually ($paged – 1) * $limit. So what you got is the number of … Read more
The WordPress query object has an internal counter, current_post, which you can use to check the position of the post in the loop you are currently outputting, whether it’s the main query $wp_query or a custom query you create via WP_Query. The important thing to remember about current_post is that it’s zero indexed, the first … Read more
Check WP_Query Order by Parameters $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘my_custom_post_type’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘age’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘age’, ‘value’ => array(3, 4), ‘compare’ => ‘IN’, ) ) ); $query = new WP_Query($args);
the_post_thumbnail is echoing content. You need get_the_post_thumbnail instead. That is your problem. I believe you should be able to swap this: $the_ad = the_post_thumbnail();, for this: $the_ad = get_the_post_thumbnail();
When the single post template is loaded, WordPress has already queried the database for that post. When you call query_posts(‘post_type=post&posts_per_page=1′);, and then run the loop, this simply loads and outputs a single post, which by default will be the latest post. It also has the side-effect of overwriting the original main query. You don’t need … Read more
Pagination in URLs only works for the “main” query. What you’ve created is a secondary query, so WordPress doesn’t “know” about it in such a way that the application would be able to create pagination. If you use a secondary query (like your example) it’s up to you to do the pagination stuff manually. Rather … Read more
You should access global variables in php using global keyword.It makes variable( or object, array) visible inside current function we are dealing with. In function wms_output_home_slides you are using $post global variable directly instead access it using global keyword as following. function wms_output_home_slides($cat) { // $cat=”homeslide” global $post; // You Code Goes here } Find … Read more