wp-query

Don’t think the effort worth it to do it with generating appropriate mysql statements as you can just use three queries, or sort the posts after you have the results of the query with both ways resulting in a mostly readable code. Main reason not to choose the above is if performance is critical. Another … Read more

You can use get_the_ID() to retrieve the current page’s ID. $current_page_id = get_the_ID(); $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘page’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘post_parent’ => ‘2’, ‘post__not_in’ => array( 4, $current_page_id ), ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’ ); This kind of ID exclusion may cause query performance issues, especially when you have a great number … Read more

For array and object meta values, WordPress serializes them to string representations using serialize(). Thus, your meta value looks like this in the database: a:3:{i:0;s:9:”1 | 1 | 1″;i:1;s:15:”1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5″;i:2;s:12:”22 | 22 | 22″;} There is no built-in way to query within these serialized strings, but since these are strings with a … Read more