Order by DESC, ASC in custom WP_Query

Try this: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘pb_issue_featured’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘posts_per_page’ => $posts, ‘paged’ => $paged, ‘paged’ => 1, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘headline’, ‘value’ => 1, ‘compare’ => ‘!=’ ) ) ); add_filter( ‘posts_orderby’, ‘filter_query’ ); $q = new WP_Query($args); remove_filter( ‘posts_orderby’, ‘filter_query’ ); function … Read more

Loop within a loop?

You can create any number of loops as you wish by creating more WP_Query objects $query = new WP_Query($args); while ($query->have_posts()) : // initialization for $inner_args & backup the current global $post $inner_query = new WP_Query($inner_args); while ($inner_query->have_posts()) : // do something endwhile; // restore the global $post from the previously created backup endwhile; EXPLANATION … Read more

Sorting: custom query with orderby meta_value_num THEN by title

This is very crude but should sort your posts by year (meta_value) and then by title. It does depend on how the query is setup so it will only work with the query below or with similar ones. function alter_order_wpse_103181($order,$qry) { remove_filter(‘posts_orderby’,’alter_order’,1,2); $order = explode(‘,’,$order); $order = implode( ‘ ASC,’,$order); return $order; } add_filter(‘posts_orderby’,’alter_order_wpse_103181′,1,2); $q … Read more

How can I use order_by to order by two meta_keys without excluding posts that don’t have those keys initialized?

I had a similar issue but couldn’t solved with the snippets on this thread. I had to order a query by: all ‘featured’ posts first (is_it_a_featured_etf) and by a numeric field (etf_aum) in DESC order after the featured ones. My solution: ‘meta_query’ => [ ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, ‘etf_aum’ => array( ‘key’ => ‘etf_aum’, ‘type’ => … Read more

get_queried_object() returns null on post date archive

so my question is, is this intended functionality (e.g. are you not supposed to use get_queried_object() on those pages), a technical limitation (is there not a meaningful object to return on those pages), or simply an implementation oversight? get_queried_object() is to get the term, author, single post, single custom post type, or page object being … Read more