This AJAX Code Doesn’t Work – Looking for elegant solution

Working Code Based On My Previous Answer Without using nonce.. but you can check the previous answer on how you can implement a nonce check. And the code is based on your code. misha_my_load_more_scripts() in functions.php function misha_my_load_more_scripts() { wp_register_script( ‘my_loadmore’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/js/myloadmore.js’, array( ‘jquery’ ), ”, true ); wp_enqueue_script( ‘my_loadmore’ ); } add_action( … Read more

Shortcode returns escaped HTML tags

I would recommend using single quotes if you want to include some HTML, also you need to return something otherwise nothing happens. // WP Shortcode function text_shortcode() { return ‘<strong>bold text:</strong> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/318934/shortcode-returns-escaped-html-tags”>See wordpress.stackexchange.com</a>’; } add_shortcode(‘bold-text’, ‘text_shortcode’); Your WordPress shortcode would be: [bold-text] Edit: You don’t need html_entity_decode or htmlentities only when you’re doing something … Read more

How to order a post type with meta_value_num and if meta_value_num does not exist then order by date

You can pass a space-delimited set of columns to orderby argument of WP Query: $args = array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘wp_ratings’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num date’ ); $query = new WP_Query( $args ); You can also pass an array of key => sort_order for more granular control, for example: $args = array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘wp_ratings’, ‘orderby’ => … Read more

How to get a meta value from all post

get_col() function returns only one column as array. To get two column result we can use get_results(), Which will return an array of objects Which further can be converted into required structure using foreach loop. Example – function get_meta_values( $key = ”, $type=”post”, $status=”publish” ) { global $wpdb; if( empty( $key ) ) return; $r … Read more

Best practice for multiple queries on page

WP_Query can handle all of these cases. See the section on handling multiple taxonomies. $this_cat=”interviews”; $this_tag = ‘angelina-jolie’; $args = array( ‘tax_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘category’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => $this_cat ), array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘post_tag’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => $this_tag ) ) ); $interviews = new WP_Query( … Read more