If you use something like as you suggest why is that cheap and ugly? it saves you from having to rebuild a whole search mechanism, and dealing with the template hierarchy. and as you say it’s sharing html on the search page. Go for it!
How about something like this where you filter the posts once the WP_Query gets them?
query_posts() is just a wrapper for WP_Query that sets the $wp_query global.
<?php $categories = array(‘economy’,’the-constitution’,’monetary-policy’,’liberty’); foreach($categories as $category) { $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 1, ‘category_name’ => $category, ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘highlight’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => array( ‘lead’,’featured’ ), ‘operator’ => ‘NOT IN’ ) ) ); $wpse42358_query = new WP_Query( $args ); while( $wpse42358_query->have_posts() ) : $wpse42358_query->the_post(); // write post stuff here … Read more
If I understand your question correctly, you try to just get the children and ignore the parent. Dont know where post_child => 0 comes from but I’d use post_parent => $parent_id instead. In that case you have to catch the parent ID before you do any new queries. If you do something like this at … Read more
Because you’re calling get_post_permalink etc, I think you may need to add wp_reset_postdata(); as well, per this section in the codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Interacting_with_WP_Query Hope this helps, best of luck!
Welcome to WPSE Jason, get_posts is for querying posts, and the tax_query part of that allows you to select posts which belong to taxonomies of a certain criteria. To get the taxonomy terms of a particular post, use get_the_terms, to which you pass the post’s ID and a taxonomy. It returns an array of taxonomy … Read more
That should work. Make sure there’re no typos in your custom post type name or where you register the post type. If that fails try using: ‘post_type’ => ‘any’
I would suggest storing the date-times as either: Timestamp (to sort/compare by meta_value_num) ‘yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm (e.g. 2012-04-11 19:37) to sort/compare by meta_value Then the following will work (assuming you’re using timestamp): $now = current_time(‘timestamp’); $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘rides’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 3, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘date’, ‘value’ => $now, ‘compare’ => … Read more
Where you do your pagination, you can use something like if( $page != 1 ). This allows you you to output certain sections on only the first page. You will need to change $page to your pagination variable, but that is trivial.