If the value of your custom fields is numeric, you could try ordering with meta_value_num. Also note that both meta_value and meta_value_num require meta_key in the query as described here. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘posts_per_page’ => $number, ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘event-start’, ‘value’ => $today_is, ‘type’ => ‘NUMERIC’, … Read more
If you’re going to add the filter on the where clause, then just make sure you remove it using remove_filter() and the exact same signature immediately after you create the query. In your example, you’re using query_posts(), so add the filter, run your query, and then remove your filter right afterward. add_filter( ‘posts_where’, ‘my_posts_where_filter’, 10, … Read more
You are right, it is not possible to pass an array with author IDs to exclude them. The reason is in wp-includes/query.php at line 2294 – 2298 if ( strpos($q[‘author’], ‘-‘) !== false ) { $eq = ‘!=’; $andor=”AND”; $q[‘author’] = explode(‘-‘, $q[‘author’]); $q[‘author’] = (string)absint($q[‘author’][1]); // this line select the first ID and only … Read more
This is not trivial, because “home,category and search” are logically determined while main query churns through stuff. I am pretty sure I read this is possible, but that was in context of syndicating site that hadn’t used posts/loop at all and scrapped it to do different stuff. More typical approaches are: Integrate custom logic into … Read more
There isn’t a week query variable, but there is w: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Time_Parameters w (int) – Week of the year (from 0 to 53). Uses the MySQL WEEK command. The mode is dependent on the “start_of_week” option. Your args should look like this: $args = array(‘category_name’ => ‘whats-happening’, ‘year’ => 2012, ‘w’ => 46 ,’paged’ => $paged);
Changing a query for the page post type via pre_get_posts is a bit tricky, and maybe not worth the potential issues involved. If you inspect the generated SQL, it’s looking for your requested pagename in the question post type, which is why you get the 404. The solution is to delete the page, so WordPress … Read more
I am not sure, if this is the most efficient option or not, but I have doen it in following way: I have stored 5 separate query using get_posts and stored them in a single array I had to flatten the array, since it was multidimensional. Then used usort using post_date to get the latest … Read more
This is a tough question because there are so many possible solutions. 😉 I think the easiest way is to create a custom taxonomy “year” and add it automatically to the CPT post on save using the save_post() hook and wp_set_object_terms(). You could then simply use get_terms() to get a list of years (you’ll only … Read more
Although the new orderby parameter is great in WP_Query, it does not support multiple orderby for multiple meta_key‘s. I’ve went through a couple of scenarios and even went and digged into trac and make and came up with the following make.wordpress.org A more powerful orderby in wordpress 4.0 trac ticket #17065 None of the issues … Read more
As I said, this whole setup you are after is not possible natively with pretty permalinks. Your setup probably works with default permalink structure as both queries (the main query and your custom query) read these permalinks in the same way. When you switch to pretty permalinks, the two queries on the single page interpret … Read more