You can not merge two different queries when the returned type is an object, because they have different methods and properties. Instead, you can get them as an array. Then you can merge them and compare the dates. For this, I’m going to use get_posts() over WP_Query(), and get_users() over WP_User_Query() to achieve this. The … Read more
Easiest way to display single post on front page would be: global $wp_query; $wp_query = new WP_Query( array( ‘p’ => ‘POST ID HERE’ ) ); include( ‘single-POSTTYPE.php’ );
As far as I know there is no such parameter as post_type_cat, you want to use either cat or if querying posts in a custom taxonomy you would use a taxonomy query. Category query example; $query = new WP_Query( ‘cat=2,6,17,38’ ); or $query = new WP_Query( ‘category_name=staff’ ); See the following Codex entry for even … Read more
Note that here you’re overriding the paging of the main query, with the posts_limits filter, by using hardcoded values: ‘LIMIT 0, 25’ where 0 is the offset and 25 is the number of posts to display. So in this case I would just use pre_get_posts with $query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 25 ); and we don’t have to … Read more
This is directly related to, and a consequence of WordPress.com VIP At VIP, we deal with sites that range in the hundreds of millions of page views per week. As a result, situations that can slow down your site are much more noticeable at that scale than on a small shared host, but this still … Read more
Normally you would just specify a meta_value, e.g.: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘business’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘specials’, ‘value’ => ‘these are not the specials you are looking for – Obi Wan Kenobi’ ) ) ); However because your post meta is actually a data structure, a serialised PHP array/object, that’s not … Read more
You can use ‘posts_orderby’ filter to change the SQL performed. Note that: using get_posts() you need to set ‘suppress_filters’ argument of false for the filter to be performed if you don’t explicitly set ‘post_status’ you’ll get only published posts (so no much to order) Code sample: $filter = function() { return ‘post_status ASC’; }; add_filter(‘posts_orderby’, … Read more
Yes. To give you some historical perspective WordPress core: is relatively old code base, code volume tends to grow over time; has extreme commitment to backwards compatibility, as result it’s extremely rare for code to be removed from core; is written in essentially obsolete dialect of PHP version 5.2 (which it remains compatible with), which … Read more
meta_query and orderby are seperate parameters, you just put them together in an array. You will have to do one then the other. e.g. <?php $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘property’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, ‘city_clause’ => array( ‘key’ => ‘city’, ‘compare’ => ‘EXISTS’, ), ‘street_clause’ => array( ‘key’ => ‘street_name’, ‘compare’ … Read more
Case #1: Simple Offset You want to ‘offset’ posts of a category archive by ‘n’, i.e. you simply don’t want to show the first/latest ‘n’ posts in an archive. That is, (considering the posts_per_page setting in WP Dashboard > Settings > Reading is set to 10) you want posts 11 to 20 to be shown … Read more