I managed to fix it! As I suspected it had nothing to do with the code relating to $number, but rather the echo call before it. My initial code looked like this (I’m skipping part of the loop content to keep it simple): echo ‘<p style=”color:grey;font-size:11px;margin:0;”>(‘ . $number = intval(get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), ‘number’, true)); if($number > 1){ … Read more
How to display an other custom post type in a different custom post type’s archive?
I don’t think there’s an easy way to do that with a single query. WP_Query is very good at taxonomy queries nowadays, even doing things like nested comparisons, and custom field queries. In your case, you’re trying to limit the posts returned by a meta query when another condition is true. If you go and … Read more
Show all data in database table and make it into an interactive table
Your issue is definitely caused by the lack of a pre_get_posts filter. Try this in your theme/functions.php: // so event cpt is found on assigned cat archive page function jdk540_event_query_post_type($query) { if ( ! is_admin() ) { if( is_category() || is_tag() && $query->is_main_query() && empty( $query->query_vars[‘suppress_filters’] ) ) { $post_type = get_query_var(‘post_type’); if($post_type) $post_type = … Read more
Using Advanced Custom Field for file upload, how do I load the file url
If you’re running this custom query in place of the normal main query, you should instead alter the main query before posts are fetched, via the pre_get_posts action. This would go in your theme’s functions.php, or a custom plugin: function wpd_private_posts_in_categories( $query ) { if ( $query->is_category() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘post_status’, array(‘private’, ‘publish’) … Read more
Query with relation and one without relation using multiple taxonomies?
You are just confusing the array levels, ordering is not done inside the meta_query level but on the main query level. It is the difference between two classes: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Meta_Query Also, as the meta query codex says: “Custom field value can be an array only when compare is ‘IN’, ‘NOT IN’, ‘BETWEEN’, or ‘NOT BETWEEN’”… … Read more
Your actual question is basically when to run a custom query and when to make use of the main query. Lets break it down in three parts PART ONE When to run a custom query (This is not a definitive list) To create custom content sliders To create a featured content area in a page … Read more