WordPress does its own query on every page. You should modify that query instead of creating a new one. What happens now is that WordPress does a query with the standard posts per page of 10, but you don’t do anything with these results and do your own query. This works… until WordPress goes beyond … Read more
I’m not sure you understand the logic of WP_Query. Rather than explain in words, here’s a code example; $query = new WP_Query( array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘Old ID’, ‘meta_value’ => $atts[‘oldid’] ) ); if ( $query->have_posts() ) return $query->posts[0]->post_title; return ”; Check out the codex on interacting with WP_Query. UPDATE: To use the query as you … Read more
I recently needed the same thing, I had menu of categories and I needed to get the categories that in the menu. After a several hours digging in the WP core, I found the wp_get_nav_menu_items() function that helped me. I finnally came with this, 220 was my menu_id $navcat = wp_get_nav_menu_items(‘220’); foreach ($navcat as $obj) … Read more
You can set the taxonomy query for the main query using pre_get_posts: add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘my_exclude_terms_from_query’ ); function my_exclude_terms_from_query( $query ) { if ( $query->is_main_query() /* && whatever else */ ) { $tax_query = array ( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘category’, ‘terms’ => array( ‘cat-slug’ ), ‘field’ => ‘slug’, ‘operator’ => ‘NOT IN’, ) ); $query->set( ‘tax_query’, … Read more
It seems that is was a simple problem. get_posts() has various default settings, one of which is that the post_status is set to public and my custom post type which doesn’t use post_status used the default value, draft. To fix this you can either query by post status (see the code below) or change the … Read more
I’m assuming you want something like this: |———————| | content | | (static) | |———————| | gallery | | (paged) | |———————| | << pagelinks >> | |———————| In this setup your the post content stays the same, appears to be static, while the gallery is paged. This means you have the main query, showing … Read more
If you look at the query object after those queries are run, you’ll see that none of those examples are doing what you think they’re doing. The first issue is that you can’t mix query string and array parameters, and the second issue is that pagename can only be used to load a single page. … Read more
How can I prepare() my wpdb query? I tried but couldn’t manage because of the second parameter. The prepare() works is explained in Codex, you need to have a query with placeholders and additional arguments to replace that placeholders. If you have no placeholders (so no variable parts in the query) then you can use … Read more
It is because you are giving wrong arguments. Provide right arguments to WP_Query(). Also have a look at the custom field parameters One more thing, you will have to use code like $args = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘display’, ‘value’ => ‘about’, ‘compare’ => ‘=’, // (Read all comparison … Read more
I happened to be working on something similar today and just remembered you were looking for something like this, so let me share it with you. Here’s how one can use the posts_where filter to restrict the WP_Query, to posts in some custom post type cpt1 OR another post type cpt2 that’s attached to some … Read more