I ran your query and got … ORDER BY wp_postmeta.meta_value+0,RAND() DESC … which is what I expected. If I am reading your question correctly, what you want is … ORDER BY wp_postmeta.meta_value+0 DESC,RAND() … as in this question at SO. That should sort by meta_value first and then randomize any second level ordering that is … Read more
WP_Query Attachment adds additional attachment count and need to link attachment to post url
The reason you are losing your filters is because you are passing them through POST in the forms. This is fine, but you will have to store these values somehow for the pagination. I believe if you used GET, you may retain the values on “page 2”, but any POST values are lost as soon … Read more
can these 3 queries be re-written as 1 query?
I don’t have the time right now to work the code, but you’ll need to use pre_get_posts and filter out based upon comment_status => ‘open’.
Just to close this one out – you can set Pages to be publicly_queryable using the function provided above.
How to filter a query by multiple meta keys and order by other meta keys
How to increase load time of an archive/search page (WP_Query)
You’re always displaying the posts from the category “category1” because that’s what you’ve written in your code here $rPosts->query(‘showposts=4&category_name=category1′); If you want to just go to the category archive pages you can do that by generating the links with get_term_link. This function goes at the position where you’re displaying the links & then this code … Read more
This code didn’t change since Twenty Eleven’s initial release. Navigation is only printed if your query has more than one page. Could that be it? Since you are calling $wp_query->have_posts() rather than have_posts(), this suggests you are modifying or overriding the query, which may be confusing WordPress (and it’s not WP’s fault). (See When should … Read more