There’s some overlap, but each isn’t an abstraction of the previous, and there are definitely some things you don’t want to do outside of the API. Most things, actually! WP_Query is for retrieving posts and pages, it doesn’t update anything, and it doesn’t fetch data that isn’t a post or page. The higher level API … Read more
The answer from the OP inspired me to quickly write this function which is not resource intensive and really fast. I also decided to try another method as described by the OP To accomplish this, I’ve made use of the Transient API and the post_updated action THE LOGIC To get the position of a post, … Read more
The rule of thumb is not to do any caching, except for object caching, for logged in users. Actually IIRC object caching will give you exactly what you want. But if you have to do it your way, you should make your cache keys to be based on the query and have different cache for … Read more
Have a look at get_the_terms()? <?php // Change ‘category’ if using a custom taxonomy and not referring to the default blog categories $terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, ‘category’ ); ?> <tr> <td><?php foreach($terms as $term) { // show which categorie(s) under ABC if( $term->parent == ‘0’ ) ) { echo $term->name; } } ?></td> <td><?php foreach($terms … Read more
I finally made it work. Leaving the answer here in case someone else have the same problem. <div id=”content”> <?php global $paged; global $new_query; $paged = get_query_var(‘page’); query_posts( array( ‘cat’ => 251, ‘paged’ => $paged ) ); $new_query = new WP_Query(); $new_query->query(‘cat=251&posts_per_page=3&paged=’.$paged); ?> <?php while ($new_query->have_posts()) : $new_query->the_post(); ?> <?php the_title(); ?> <?php endwhile; ?> … Read more
Isn’t that just the regular WP loop? Don’t think this is related to ACF, since as you say this distance-thing isn’t a custom field and ACF is made for working with those. Not sure how you build this without seeing more code. But couldn’t you go something like $post->distance ?
The main query runs before the template is loaded. WordPress knows what template to load based on the results of that query. If you want to insert an additional query into the content area, either create a shortcode, or add a filter on the_content and do your page check/query output there.
The problem you are having is that get_queried_object returns results based on the query that was run. On author.php, the queried object was an author. On single.php, page.php, or any custom post type template, the queried object will be the post, not the author. This means that if you want to use $wp_query->get_queried_object();, you will … Read more
The correct query is: $args1 = array( ‘showposts’ => 5, ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => 1, //ORDER ARGUMENTS ‘meta_key’ => ‘post_views_count’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_key_num’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, //META QUERY ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘_simple_fields_fieldGroupID_2_fieldID_1_numInSet_0’, ‘compare’ =>’NOT EXISTS’ ), ), ); $popularposts = new WP_Query($args1); The order aguments are always outside meta_query, see the codex.
You need to specify the post type to be a post – try this for your $args instead: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, // Specifying you want posts only ‘posts_per_page’ => 1, ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ); And most importantly, you need to apply the $args to your query, so do this … Read more