The problem here is that WP_Query requires the posts returned to be both in your lists of post IDs and in one of your categories. The SQL query generated by your code looks something like this: SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.ID IN (8200,3581,38,1562,7613) AND … Read more
The WordPress query object has an internal counter, current_post, which you can use to check the position of the post in the loop you are currently outputting, whether it’s the main query $wp_query or a custom query you create via WP_Query. The important thing to remember about current_post is that it’s zero indexed, the first … Read more
Use get_posts function with WP_Query params instead of get_children. The code will than look like this: $today = getdate(); $pages = get_posts( array( ‘post_status’ => array( ‘publish’, ‘future’ ), ‘post_type’ => ‘event’, ‘sort_order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, ‘year’ => $today[“year”], ‘monthnum’ => $today[“mon”], ‘day’ => $today[“mday”] ) ); foreach ( $pages as $post ) … Read more
For your issue regarding only returning 20% of your posts, try the following <?php query_posts(‘cat=4&posts_per_page=-1’); ?> Note: By default, 10 posts are returned. -1 will return all posts in the resulting set. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts#All_Posts_in_a_Category — For your question about passing through the Category Name, you can pass through the category_name as parameter, which accepts the category … Read more
The code you posted does not query for any content at all. To do that, use the WP_Query object. Please do not use query_posts, especially for secondary Loops. From the Codex: // The Query $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); // The Loop while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); echo ‘<li>’ . get_the_title() . ‘</li>’; … Read more
There is no member argument for WP_Query, you want to pass the user ID as author.
I haven’t tested the code below, but I think you could use something like it. add_shortcode( ‘show_posts_from_cat’, ‘wpse_85708_posts_from_cat’ ); function wpse_85708_posts_from_cat( $atts ) { extract(shortcode_atts(array( ‘id’ => ” ), $atts)); $args = array( ‘category’ => $id ); $cat_posts = get_posts( $args ); foreach( $cat_posts as $cat_post ) { setup_postdata( $cat_post ); // Display code here. … Read more
In the arguments for get_posts, add ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’. See get_posts in Codex for a full list of available arguments. $args = array( ‘category__in’ => $category_ids, ‘post__not_in’ => $showed_posts, ‘showposts’ => $SMTheme->get( ‘layout’, ‘relatedcnt’ )-$post_cnt, ‘caller_get_posts’ => 1, ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’ );
Inspect get_queried_object(). On an archive for the category Uncategorized you get something like … stdClass Object ( [term_id] => 1 [name] => Uncategorized [slug] => uncategorized [term_group] => 0 [term_taxonomy_id] => 1 [taxonomy] => category Find out in which kind of archive am I => [parent] => 0 [count] => 8 [cat_ID] => 1 [category_count] … Read more
Not an answer (can’t comment) but I had this happen with my pages recently. It turned out to be a naming conflict with a custom post type ( I used the word “order”). If you have made any CPT’s check your names if the are really common words. Here is a link to learn how … Read more