I don’t think this is doable in a single WP API query. You just don’t sort whole set with single logic, you have logic changing halfway. I don’t think even SQL can express this. It is hard to advise without seeing specific circumstances (such as counts, pagination involved and so on), but my first thought … Read more
Your question is slightly ambiguous, but I read it this way: given an author and you want to know the three categories in which has published most posts. Let’s use wp_query to get there. $author=”johndoe”; $author_posts = new WP_Query (array ( ‘author’ => $author, ‘posts_per_page’=>-1, )); Now we have an array of all posts by … Read more
Convert your string of IDs into a proper array: $exclude_ids = get_field( ‘exclude_pages’ ); $exclude_array = explode( “,”, $exclude_ids ); Then pass $exclude_array as the value for post__not_in.
Orderby listing issue
Query Custom Post Type Taxonomy term with multiple parameters
WP_Query with ‘rand’, but equal number of posts from the taxonomy terms given
Lost draft under all posts and drafts
REST API: Limit Read Permissions for Default Endpoints
Your issue is the post_parent parameter, if this is set to 0 or a falsey value like null your query will return all top level posts. So you just have to make sure $rental->post->ID has a value, or use a different approach like the get_the_ID() function. Can’t really tell you more than that as you … Read more