You’re doing query_posts and then immediately get_posts. This looks wrong. Remove the query_posts call. Also, where does your $cat come from? It doesn’t appear to be set anywhere in your code snippet. Try to start with setting it first: $cat = get_query_var(‘cat’);
Yes, there are a few improvements. Needlessly opening and closing PHP tags is a timewaster, makes it harder to read, and means more typing PHP Alt/short style syntax isn’t going to play as nicely with the editor. Use {} instead, and your IDE may even help you type out the closing brace automagically. Query_posts, never, … Read more
After a lot of trial and error I learnt that WP_User_Query takes an argument fields which can be set to ‘all_with_meta’. This reduces number of queries to two for any number of users that are fetched in a single go and also provides benefits of caching. Usage would look like: $user_query = new WP_User_Query( array(‘include’ … Read more
Your first query is very strange. You seem to be mixing meta_query parameters with other WP_Query arguments. You can’t do that. author is not a valid component of a meta_query, neither is tag. The correct meta_query, if I am interpreting this right, wouldn’t even be a meta query. You are dealing with a taxonomy, a … Read more
You can try this: $args = array( ‘post__not_in’ => get_option( ‘sticky_posts’ ), ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ); $recent = new WP_Query( $args ); to exclude the sticky posts. You can read more about it here in the Codex.
The code you posted will only make difference in adding <div class=”first-post”></div> for the first post, so it still displays same information for all posts. Try this instead: <?php $queryObject = new Wp_Query( array( ‘showposts’ => 5, ‘post_type’ => array(‘post’), ‘category_name’ => videos, ‘orderby’ => 1, )); // The Loop if ( $queryObject->have_posts() ) : … Read more
If wp_create_user executes successfully, it will return the id of the created user. [Codex] Here it is in action with an error handler. $user_id = wp_create_user(); if( is_wp_error($user_id) ) { echo $user_id->get_error_message(); } else { //add into custom table echo $user_id; }
Taxonomies and meta data (Custom Fields) are two different things. If you want to filter on a taxonomy term, you want a tax_query, not a meta query.
In your first code example, you hook into the pre_get_posts action, which fires during the main query. But instead of manipulating that query, you trigger another one using query_posts(), which fires the hook again, and you end up with an infinite loop. With the second code example, you’re just overriding the main query after it’s … Read more
First of all I don’t think you should use your custom query_posts in here. WordPress already queries posts on archive pages, so it’s waste of time to query them one more time. You should be using pre_get_posts filter. function my_pre_get_posts($query) { if (!is_admin() && is_main_query() ‘<YOUR_POST_TYPE>’ === $query->query_vars(‘post_type’) && $query->is_archive()) { $query->set(‘orderby’,’meta_value’); $query->set(‘meta_key’, ‘<YOUR_POST_TYPE>’); //formatted … Read more