Completely edited after first publish The problem is that to order for a meta value, WordPress need to ‘meta_key’ in query is set to something. But if you set ‘meta_key’ to something, then WordPress will add something like AND ( wp_postmeta.meta_key = ‘the_meta_key’ ) to WHERE SQL clause; and something like INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON … Read more
use pagename= to query by slug. See WP_Query for full list of valid arguments.
Instead of ‘cat’ => 12 and $wp_query use ‘category_name’ => slug and get_posts(). Here is a basic example how it works: PHP add_action( ‘wp_loaded’, array ( ‘T5_Ajax_Search’, ‘init’ ) ); /** * Ajaxify the search form. */ class T5_Ajax_Search { /** * The main instance. You can create further instances for unit tests. * @type … Read more
Your filter has a bug in it, namely when you call is_main_query, you’re not checking if the passed query is the main query, your checking if the currently active query is the main query, which will always be true. So instead try this: add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘some_name’); function some_name($query) { if ($query->is_front_page() && $query->is_main_query()) { $query->set( … Read more
Load WordPress in custom PHP Script: You need to load essential WordPress core functionality in your custom PHP script for WP_Query to work properly. For example, let’s say you have a custom PHP file named my-cron.php and WordPress is installed in the web root, like this: public_html/ index.php my-cron.php <– wp-load.php wp-settings.php … wp-admin/ wp-content/ … Read more
Getting posts without a certain meta key is a little tricky, namely due to the database design and the nature of SQL joins. AFAIK, the most efficient way would be to actually grab the post IDs that do have the meta key, and then exclude them from your query. // get all post IDs that … Read more
next_posts_link and previous_posts_link use the global $wp_query. function get_next_posts_link( $label = null, $max_page = 0 ) { global $paged, $wp_query; http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5/wp-includes/link-template.php#L1523 That means you need to do something like this to get those to work correctly. $orig_query = $wp_query; $wp_query = new WP_Query($args); // the rest of your code $wp_query = $orig_query; If you are … Read more
At the moment, it is not possible. When ‘pre_get_posts’ runs, is too late to stop WP_Query to perform a query. WordPress itself, when you try to query a taxonomy that does not exists, adds AND (0 = 1) to the WHERE clause of the SQL query, to ensure it returns no results very quickly… There’s … Read more
The difference between get_posts & WP_Query You can view get_posts() as a slimmed down WP_Query. In fact looking at the source: //… prepares query array $r $get_posts = new WP_Query; return $get_posts->query($r); get_posts() use WP_Query, but only returns an array of posts – nothing more. Furthermore it sets: $r[‘no_found_rows’] = true; Normally (by default with … Read more
the_posts_navigation() is simply a wrapper function for get_the_posts_navigation() which issimply a wrapper function for paginate_links. The first two functions uses the the same exact parameters that is being used by paginate_links and actually passes it to the latter function as well get_the_posts_navigation() and the_posts_navigation() is good new functions as it eliminates a lot of custom … Read more