Your problem is your custom query. Do not use variables that is used by default by WordPress. $posts and $post is WordPress reserved global variables. Change $post to a unique variable, something like $posts_query. When using get_posts and you need to setup postdata to make use of template tags, you have no choiche but to … Read more
query_posts is a PHP function, not a javascript function, it’s executed on the server, and the resulting output is sent to the browser. By the time the browser gets the chance to run your if( $(window).width() < 2000 ) { check, it’s already too late. The server has finished its PHP script, sent it across, … Read more
Use compare with NOT EXISTS to get posts without that meta key. ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘featured_post’, ‘compare’ => ‘NOT EXISTS’, ), )
If you need to skip the current post, you can make use of the offset parameter. The value passed will the amount of posts to skip, so in your case, you would do ‘offset’ => 1, to skip the latest post. Just a note on offset, when you add offset to any query, it breaks … Read more
Querying this many posts is dangerous and you can ( and do ) take the site down. If you absolutely have to do this, you need to adjust your query to be more performant. If you’re just needing the link then add ‘fields’ => ‘ids’ to your params – this will only return the post … Read more
I have read quite a few of your posts and it seems like your queries are really complex which either slows the page or simply crashes it. Transients are definitely an option to store the results of such labor intensive queries. As @s_ha_dum mentioned, you’ll need to look into what you will be saving. Would … Read more
From what I read, you read the URL/path to the post thumbnails is an array. We need to look at a couple of things here to make this as lean and predictable as possible IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS We do need some way to make sure that we get the latest three posts which actually have thumbnails … Read more
I am assuming your custom post type is also “series”. Can you try this, it should work. $args = [ ‘post_type’ => ‘series’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘meta_query’ => [ [ ‘key’ => ‘series’, ‘value’ => 19, ‘compare’ => ‘=’, ‘type’=>’NUMERIC’ ] ], ]; $posts = new WP_Query( $args ); or you can simple use: $args … Read more
numberposts doesn’t exist for WP_Query instead use “posts_per_page” => 1
You have a couple of issues here You are checking whether the main query returned any posts and then loop through the posts of your custom query rewind_posts() is wrongly used. By default, rewind_posts() rewinds the loop of the main query. You should rewind the posts of your custom query. Your last loop just basically … Read more