You have missed meta_value parameter. You can use like this : $today=date(‘Y-m-d’); $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => 10, ‘post_type’ => ‘events’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘event_date’, ‘meta_value >=’ => $today ); // get results $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
You can try to fetch posts, that don’t have a featured image, with: $ppp = 5; // posts per page /** * Fetch $ppp posts, without thumbnails, in a given category: */ $args = array( ‘cat’ => 1, ‘posts_per_page’ => $ppp, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘_thumbnail_id’, ‘compare’ => ‘NOT EXISTS’, ), ), ); … Read more
Near the top of your code, you have wp_reset_postdata();. As explained in the Functional Reference it alter the main loop and should be avoided. Looks like that’s what’s causing your issue.
Quoting from the WordPress VIP Development Best Practices: Remember that the database is not a tool box. Although you might be able to perform a lot of work on the database side, your code will scale much better by keeping database queries simple and performing necessary calculations and logic in PHP. That said, you might … Read more
Firstly, your problem with the last post type and/or term overwriting all previous is because ‘filter’ is a 2-dimensional array. Therefore ‘taxonomy’ (the key in this case) can only have one value. If that seems odd, read this super helpful page on the plugin’s github that helped me a lot (read this) tldr; term lists … Read more
You could use the is_main_query Function : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_main_query Happy Coding, Kuchenundkakao
What else can I do to the query to do as little work as possible to eliminate “extra” posts in PHP that get queried because my query is too broad. The trouble is, meta queries are slow. Metadata is a simple key => value type database. Keys are indexed, and values are longtext. That’s it. … Read more
You must use LIKE on the meta_key to support the SQL % pattern. The compare attribute only applies to the meta value. Instead you could try to filter it with: /** * Match any numbers in given a meta-key for WP_Query * * @see https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/177331/26350 */ ! is_admin() && add_filter( ‘posts_where’, function( $where ) { … Read more
After hours of searching and testing I finally came to a solution. This code and SQL shows events with a parent id of 0 and is ordered by the dates of child events. Raw SQL cannot be used to replace the default way WP queries the database but there are always some kind of workaround … Read more
You’re not using query_vars quite right – this filter is for whitelisting “public” query vars, not actually setting their values. It’s also called rather early (wp::parse_request), so any conditional tags like is_tax() will always be false at this stage. Use the pre_get_posts action for overriding the default query. Having said that, you need a custom … Read more