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Calling a function with WP_Query only ever brings the first result

If you switch to get_posts you don’t have to worry about resetting the loop. function SliderBuilder( $categoryID ) { $args = array ( ‘cat’ => $categoryID, ‘posts_per_page’ => 3, ); $posts = get_posts( $args ); echo $categoryID; ?> <ul class=”blog-slider” id=”blog-slider”> <?php foreach ( $posts as $post ) { ?> <li class=”blog-slide” onclick=”location.href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/243846/<?php echo get_the_permalink( … Read more

Populate metabox dropdown with post title from another Custom Post Type (issues with wp_reset / global $post)

Okay, I’ve got it sorted. I found a post on here with something similar; WordPress wasn’t resetting back into the main loop. So my code is now: /* Show roles metabox */ function show_roles_metabox() { global $post; $tempPost = $post; wp_nonce_field(basename(__FILE__), ‘role_nonce’); $pro_areas = array( ‘One’, ‘Two’, ‘Three’ ); $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘proarea’, … Read more

What’s causing an infinite loop?

Can’t reset the secondary query by wp_reset_postdata()

wp_reset_query is meant to be used with a loop, because it resets the global $wp_query object. get_posts, on the other hand, just returns an array to be iterated with ie. foreach. setup_postdata does not populate the $wp_query object: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/setup_postdata. For a custom query, you would either use the WP_Query class, or you could reset your … Read more

Unable to reset post data in wordpress custom query

After reading the documentation for multiple loops in one page here, I only had one WP_Query for both the loops. I stored the ID’s of all the posts from the desired category and check for them in the second loop and continue over them. Here’s the final code – first loop <?php $args = array( … Read more

wp_reset_postdata not working

3 posts from each existing category on one page

I found a problem. I had to change this: $args = array( ‘cat’ => $category->name, ‘posts_per_page’ => 3,); for this: $args = array( ‘category_name’ => $category->name, ‘posts_per_page’ => 3,); In first code I was passing category name which is string to argument expecting ID of category. Here is Codex reference where I found solution: category_name … Read more

Displaying requested data from a the database in wordpress

Custom WP_Query not working correctly

Use wp_reset_query() to restore the original query. This also calls wp_reset_postdata, so you can just replace that.

Optimizing the blog loop

First of all: do not use query_posts use get_posts or new WP_Query instead. If you want to show only most viewed posts, you’ll need to add action ( for ex. wp ) check if your on single post page and update that post meta views ( +1 ). Then you could do something like these … Read more

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