You are missing the point of restoring the context to original state. Yes, your loops do work without reset. But anything that tries to access queried post after them will hit leftovers of your custom queries in global variables, rather than post from main query. In a literal sense the reset after your first query … Read more
wp_reset_postdata() wp_reset_postdata() will restores the global $post variable to the current post in the main query. This is useful when using WP_Query to customize loops or create multiple loops on the same page. This Answer will solve all your queries about wp_reset_postdata() & WP_Query & get_posts
If order by RAND is disabled at server level, you can try doing the rand by hand by running the query and get the ids first, then running a new query from the result including x random post ids: $get_all_args = array( ‘fields’ => ‘ids’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 99, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘orderby’ => ‘modified’, ‘tax_query’ … Read more
When using get_posts() you don’t actually setup post data unless you do so explicitly, via setup_postdata() inside your (usually a foreach) loop. So, since you’re not setting up post data, you shouldn’t need to reset post data. but still the output fails for all but the first post I think that’s because you’re calling the … Read more
The answer from the OP inspired me to quickly write this function which is not resource intensive and really fast. I also decided to try another method as described by the OP To accomplish this, I’ve made use of the Transient API and the post_updated action THE LOGIC To get the position of a post, … Read more
Having attempted various work arounds the way I have this to work is to not use the_post(). WP_Query should still work but I have swapped over to get_posts(). $results = get_posts( $args ); foreach ( $results as $p ): $array[$p->ID] = $p->post_title; endforeach; return $array; Frustrating that this seems to be a problem with certain … Read more
That is the responsibility of the author of the plugin. Amazingly some authors believe that it is wrong to delete information from the DB, which I personally find unbelievable, but I guess there are all kinds of users that do not think or backup before they delete things, and they were crying for such functionality … Read more
I did a little digging and found that the answer varies depending on your situation but for the most part no. If you are using the global $post variable outside a query then maybe.
wp_reset_postdata() and wp_reset_query() inside shortcode are not working to reset original page query
You can get the category id and the fetch the permalink by using get_category_link($Id);