I suspect you need an array for the terms – although I’m not sure why it would work with “IN” and not with “NOT IN”… But I’d try this: function menta_pre_get_posts( $query ) { if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_search() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $term = get_term_by(‘slug’, get_query_var(‘s’), ‘product_tag’); if ( $term && !is_wp_error( $term ) … Read more
Did you actually find a case where there are any real comments in the wp-query object after running a normal query? If you examine the code in class-wp-query.php, you should find that the comments field only is populated with comments when a “comments-feed” is being queried for. In normal operation, comments are not retrieved by … Read more
User Rarst has a very famous answer where he lays out the load process. Looking at this graph whenever wp-blog-header.php gets loaded it calls function wp() which sets up many of WordPress globals like $post and $wp_query. ( Secondary Reference by User Gmazzap ) That’s the technical side of things but it looks like the … Read more
To make that more efficient, instead of arguing the current page slug, you just place the current slug as the tax_query’s terms value. Something like: global $post; $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘post_type’ => ‘books’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘book_category’, ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘terms’ => $post->post_name, // which’d be … Read more
Stop WordPress to run main query is hard: you have to dig inside the deep heart of WordPress. WordPress frontend workflow: wp-blog-header.php call the function wp() wp() function creates an instance of wp class, and call main() method on it main() method code: public function main($query_args=””) { $this->init(); $this->parse_request($query_args); // build query vars starting from … Read more
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I did some more research, and found this – https://wordpress.org/plugins/attachments/ It’s a great plugin that lets you attach images to the post without inserting them in the post and the images can be easily sorted with ajax, it’s also quite modifiable and just what I needed, and works on custom … Read more
EDIT 2 Here is another version of the code in EDIT 1. This code is about much more faster. Here is my test between the code in EDIT 1 and EDIT 2 EDIT 1 Database query time = +/- 0.25 and Database queries = 69 EDIT 2 Database query time = +/- 0.07 and Database … Read more
You can use pre_get_posts action to exclude categories from search query. function wcs_exclude_category_search( $query ) { if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) return; if ( $query->is_search ) { $query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-22, -21’ ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘wcs_exclude_category_search’, 1 ); You should paste this code in your theme’s functions.php file.
WordPress uses global $post variable. This way you don’t have to pass post nor post_ID as param for functions. So you can call the_title() and WP knows which title should it show. This behavior works fine, if there is only one loop on the site. But if you create your own custom loops and iterate … Read more
It’s actually a good question. Of course user input cannot be trusted, but also sanitizing the same value twice “just in case” isn’t the best solution for a problem. The only real answer to this question can be given by looking at the code and following what goes on. And after reading it for a … Read more