That’s question is only relevant, because WordPress use a mix from a coding language and layout language. If you would use a template language, syntax, than is this topic not relevant. But to your question. If you use your example source for a Theme, much more layout language like html, then I prefer the first … Read more
You should be able to call posts with a featured image with the following code: $thumbs = array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, ‘meta_query’ => array(array(‘key’ => ‘_thumbnail_id’)) ); $query = new WP_Query($thumbs); The code checks each post for the custom field _thumbnail_id, which is where the thumbnail image is stored.
In retrospect, I’ve did a mashup of MikeSchinkel and t31os suggestion. It’s possible to inject that to existing queries on the fly, but it needs WordPress 3.1: Plugin to get an RSS Feed for posts containing any term from a taxonomy.
This can be done by using the term_taxonomy_id rather than the slug, which will effectively ignore whichever taxonomy is specified and just look at the unique term_taxonomy_id field. This will allow you to effectively be able to do a mixed relationship. You’d want to use an overall relation of AND and put all the terms … Read more
I’m afraid that you can’t do it this way. wp_redirect is a fancy way to send header Location and the second argument of this function is request status, and not custom variable. (404, 301, 302, and so on). You can send some variables as get parameters. So you can do something like this: if ( … Read more
One way is to customize the SQL query executed using posts_clauses or other such filters. To find them search for posts_clauses in “wp-includes/query.php” & see the series of filters just before this line. These together are capable of customizing any part of the query Another thing you can do is manually merge the queried posts … Read more
We all know that ignore_sticky_posts is used to exclude sticky post from your custom query. – No, this assumption is wrong. What ignore_sticky_posts means: Even though in natural English, ignore_sticky_posts sounds like WordPress should ignore all sticky posts from the query, in reality that is not what WordPress does. Instead, you should read ‘ignore_sticky_posts’ => … Read more
$wp_query hold main loop of page and should not be used to create multiple loops. If you are using new WP_Query object then your variable that holds it will have according count: $my_query = new WP_Query(); // stuff $count = $my_query->post_count; If you are using get_posts() then WP_Query object is not accessible and you should … Read more
The answer below is simplified, and could be extended to check if any posts have 3 matching tags before outputting the list. Using one query and assuming you have at least one post with 3 matching tags: //List of tag slugs $tags = array(‘foo’, ‘bar’, ‘chocolate’, ‘mango’, ‘hammock’, ‘leaf’); $args = array( ‘tag_slug__in’ => $tags … Read more
TL;DR: This problem probably mostly happens when a boolean field is created as optional. You can fix it either by making it required, or using a more complex query to retrieve the default case. More details: There are two data representation problems going on here: one is which data values are being used to represent … Read more