This will definitely work….It worked for me… $username = get_the_author_meta( ‘login’, $author_id ); $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘any’, ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘suppress_filters’ => true, ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘author’, ‘field’ => ‘name’, ‘terms’ => $username ) ) ); $query = new WP_Query( $args );
View this section of the Codex to learn how to create a custom query: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query Your query will be something like: $query = new WP_Query( array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘post_views_count’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5 ) ); By default, the ordering will be highest to lowest, thus giving you the “top” 5.
This should do it. The default relation is AND so that won’t need to be specified. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘wpse_cpt’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘post_code’, ‘value’ => ‘432C’, ), array( ‘key’ => ‘location’, ‘value’ => ‘XYZ’, ), ), ); $query = new WP_Query( $args );
Note that the relation part in the meta_query argument, is only used to define the relation between the sub meta queries. You can try this setup: $args = [ ‘_meta_or_title’ => $thesearch, // Our new custom argument! ‘meta_query’ => [ [ ‘key’ => ‘model_name’, ‘value’ => $thesearch, ‘compare’ => ‘like’ ] ], ]; where we … Read more
Set orderby to post__in. This preserves post ID order given in the post__in array (available with Version 3.5). $args = array ( ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘post__in’ => $ids, ‘orderby’ => ‘post__in’ );
You may be surprised, but there is nothing strange there. First of all let’s clarify that in WordPress when you visit a frontend URL you trigger a query. Always. That query is just a standard WP_Query, just like the ones run via: $query = new WP_Query( $args ); There is only one difference: the $args … Read more
Here’s one experimental idea: Assume we got: post A with the custom field location1 as UK – London post B with the custom field location2 as France – Paris post C with the custom field location3 as USA – New York Then we could use, for example: $args = [ ‘meta_query’ => [ ‘relation’ => … Read more
You could use the query to filter the content as you intended by using the ‘meta_query’ with filtering options, and for the order part, just add/modify the following parameters: ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’ ‘meta_key’ => ‘location_level1_value’ ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ $wp_query = new WP_Query( array ( ‘post_type’ => ‘listing’, ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘9’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘meta_query’ => … Read more
You will either need to globalize $books (if you want to stick to get_template_part() ) or use require( locate_template( ‘loop-books.php’ ) ); instead of get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘books’ );. This issue is caused by $books in loop-books.php being defined only in the scope of get_template_part().
There is no build in function to achieve what you want, at least not for complicated meta queries like this. If you need to use build in functions for this, the best will be to make use of WP_Query. To make the query faster and to skip the unwanted returned array of WP_Post properties, and … Read more