WP_Query has a bug (#29167) when you try to fetch posts with (almost?) any other status than publish. This bug seems to be fixed in trunk. I haven’t tested it, so I cannot tell if it covers your use case. Try it, and give feedback there if it doesn’t. There are two workarounds: Use get_post( … Read more
First, read this post to understand my answer Search that will look in custom field, post title and post content You may want to use the acf/fields/relationship/query/ however, when adding the args: $args[‘meta_query’] = array(array( ‘key’ => ‘your_meta’, ‘value’ => $args[‘s’], ‘compare’ => ‘LIKE’, )); you will find that using that query, WordPress will search … Read more
Here’s a straight up simple solution. Requires you to have the most recent version of WordPress though. (or at least 4.1) Using nested taxonomy query. Taking what you have, and just adding to it a bit. $args = array( ‘post-type’ => ‘episode’, ‘post-status’ => ‘publish’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 4, ‘tax_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, array( … Read more
Multiple meta_query arguments with OR You may use the ‘relation’ => ‘OR’ argument in meta_query with two sets of field_order arguments: one with meta_value >= ‘0’ and the other one with NOT EXISTS to generate the main query. ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, field_order’ => array( ‘key’ => ‘field_order’, ‘value’ => ‘0’, ‘compare’ => … Read more
Take a look at the codex for a better understanding of queries of custom fields but it should look something like this: $subjects_array = explode(“_”, $_GET[“subjects”]); $args = array( ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘post_type’ => ‘any’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘field_name’, ‘value’ => $subjects_array, ‘compare’ => ‘IN’ ) ) ); $query = new WP_Query($args);
Starting in WordPress 3.5, the orderby parameter will allow the value post__in to sort by the order of the post__in parameter, just like in your example. It may not be ideal to wait or require 3.5+, but this will almost certainly be the best and easiest way to do what you’re looking to do. Here’s … Read more
The action init happens too early to know if the current page should display a page. You have to wait at least until template_redirect. But if you want to print something to the page, use the_content.
Totally untested and I’m not 100% sure I understand your question, but this should (in theory) get 5 posts that share any of the same venues as the current post. I would probably suggest adding some Transients to this so that you aren’t constantly running queries. If it doesn’t work, I suspect the syntax of … Read more
I have solved my problem and it had nothing to do with the query, the database or the post type. The problem was that in trying to initially construct the query I had left a pre_get_posts function in my functions.php which was conflicting with my query. The lesson here for me is to make sure … Read more
Found the answer from the WordPress docs. For what the query is ordered by, I use: global $wp_query; echo $wp_query->get(‘orderby’); For the order by which the posts are queried: global $wp_query; echo $wp_query->get(‘order’);