I end up with this to exclude the mama category: /** * filter home and blog pages for mama category * exclude posts that have that category unless they have more categories * @param string $where * @return string */ function filter_mama_cat( $where) { // get the term to exclude $term = get_term_by(‘slug’, ‘mama’, ‘category’); … Read more
You should be storing and comparing your time in 24 hour format: 00:00:00. array( ‘key’ => ‘event_end_time’, ‘value’ => date(‘G:i:s’), ‘compare’ => ‘>=’, ‘type’ => ‘TIME’ )
Custom Post Query Combined with Conditional Tags
I’ve battled with a similar problem and came to the conclusion that you can’t order by multiple meta values properly using pre_get_posts. However in your case the solution might actually be very simple. All you need to do is combine the season number with the episode number into a single number. I don’t know how … Read more
Ok I have figured it out; added the following to functions.php: add_filter( ‘posts_request’, ‘my_request_filter’, 10, 2 ); function my_request_filter($sql, $query) { if($query->is_main_query() && is_search()) { $sql = “SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_content LIKE ‘[smoothslider%’ AND post_parent !=’0′”; } return $sql; } I understand that with no access to the database or being able to … Read more
In order to get pagination working with secondary Loops, you have to pass the $paged parameter to WP_Query, other wise the query does not know which set of posts to load and will load the first set, page 1, every time. I got it to work by adding ‘paged’ => $paged inside the $args = … 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 = $orig_query; If you are … Read more
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You hook a function to save_post (for saves and updates) or publish_post for publication only. The second hook is really a variable hook of the form {$new_status}_{$post->post_type} so it will be different if you aren’t dealing with a post post type. function do_on_publish_wpse_98177($id) { // your code; $id is the post ID } add_action(‘publish_post’,’do_on_publish_wpse_98177′); Make … Read more
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