The core of the WordPress query, the loop offers an easy way to access post information and display it on your website.

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Recent posts on a static home page

I want a static home page on my wordpress website, I have already set this up and have a bit of content on it, the next step is I want to have 5 recent posts underneath the content. As a normal page ...
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Randomise results from a category page?

I have my standard category page. On this page, I'd like to put a button which, when clicked, randomises the results shown on the category page. I know I could make a rand-category.php page and send ...
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How do I prevent one of two multiple loops from repeating on a second page?

I have a page with multiple loops, but the first loop repeats on the second (or Older) page. I want to keep the formatting but stop the post from repeating. You can see the problem here: ...
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Rearranging posts based on categories

Hey everyone on Stackexchange! I'm trying to find a way to prioritize posts based on a category in a loop, which is sorted by dates. All posts are grouped under their respective dates. The date ...
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Page-loop is looping content from custom loops on the same site. How to avoid that?

i've made a custom home-page (with a template) and i'm using three loops on this site: two category-loops and on the bottom of the site the main loop for the page (the page content). the problem is: ...
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Query last updated posts (posts updated in the last 24 hours)

I'm having some difficulty to find an example of how to create a loop with posts that had been updated in the last 24 hours. My idea is to have a page of posts or perhaps on the index.php a lists of ...
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Identify the page being shown while in The Loop

In my loop, I'm trying to set it so that certain text is displayed on certain pages, if there are no posts to display. I thought this would be simple, using is_post(), but it seems that this function ...
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Showing related posts (custom post type) outside of the loop

I'm trying the following (it's a sidebar widget in the Single New template): <ul class="featured-jobs"> <?php $postid = $post->ID; $categories = ...
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show posts from one category with comments only

Would anybody have a good idea for getting the WP to spit out all posts from a category with (approved) comments only? I have an ecommerce site set up, and treat comments on product posts as ...
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Custom Post Type on Homepage - Studiopress Genesis Framework

I have used to below function to register a new 'guide' content type: add_action( 'init', 'guide_post_type' ); function guide_post_type() { register_post_type('guides', array( 'label' ...
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How do I Use Multiple Loops with WP_Query?

Hi I am trying to add post from a certain taxonomy term to a cpt loop. The code below is the code I am using. <?php // Create empty array to store post ids in $excludes = array(); ...
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need help looping add_action in wp

i would like to know the proper way to do this $dynValue=5;//loop this many times //start of my loop for ($num=1; $num <= $dynValue; $num++){ //note the incremented number ($num) in the call back ...
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sticky post in custom loop

I have a problem with showing sticky posts in a custom loop. This is the code I'm using to for the custom loop: <?php $post_from_cat_a = new WP_Query(array( 'category_name' => ...
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Paged homepage - requirements?

I've got the following loop in index.php file: $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; $post_per_page = 30; $do_not_show_stickies = 1; $args=array( 'post_type' => ...
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How to show custom post type on homepage and in catergories

Details Wordpress Version: 3.4 Theme Deadline Version 1.2 Site URL: http://www.littlenomads.com Plugin being used to create the Custom Posts Types ...
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How to group the loop posts in a particular by author?

I have links going to category pages on a WordPress blog. These category pages show all the posts that are in that category and sub-categories. I want to group these lists by the authors. I guess ...
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Loop not allowing infinite scroll after post per page limit

Im using masonry with infinite scroll to display posts in a loop. I set the post per page which works great on the index page but when I place that same loop on a single page or a buddypress profile ...
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First post outside of loop, homepage only?

Because of the way my templates are structured, I need to pull the first/sticky post from the site outside of the standard loop, just on the homepage. I'm using _s (underscores.me) as a base, so the ...
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How can I display sticky posts at first in wp_query?

I'm looking for a long time, but I could not find a solution. I'm not a coder. Please help me. Here is my wp_query code; $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=animals&showposts=10'); while ...
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wpdb inside foreach loop only returns first result - 2 other similar cases found

@Milo Problem solved, found spaces in the array $arrname. I was trying to get post id using post_name. First of all I stored all post_name in an array an then loop through the array to use the key ...
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Displaying posts on Homepage

I am wondering how to add a column to my homepage that shows the five most recent posts from the blog page located under the "Latest News" heading. Here is the link to my development site. ...
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Tables not showing divs and loop/php items

I know this is an absurd questions, as who uses tables anymore? I got handed this and just need to make it work really. I don't know anything about tables so it's been a learning experience. I ...
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Pagination in custom query not working

hi im trying to output pagination without any success. below is my code in a page-products.php template <?php $products_query = new WP_Query(array( 'post_type' => 'product', ...
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How do I filter a custom post type loop by a field?

OK, very simple task, I'm just not good at PHP. I have a page where I want to list some staff using a styled list. Here is the page all working fine, I just need to divide the results - ...
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Change loop to display items in order

I am trying to customise a search query so that items returned are ordered in descending order. I have managed to find the loop that generates the results.... global $wp_query; $args = array( ...
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Load featured article once in a loop

I'm working on a WP-Touch theme and I have a template file that looks like this: <?php get_header(); ?> <?php locate_template( 'featured-post.php', true, false ); ?> <?php ...
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Filtering posts by WORD in custom field

I need to filter my posts in categories pages, by showing only posts that have specific WORD in custom field value. I need php code that i should add in loop for this category. Details: I need loop ...
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Checking if Post Title is Unique as Loop Criteria

I'm trying to make a seemingly simple bit of php (it output's to a Gravity Forms field, but that's basically irrelevant). I'm using Gravity Forms to create posts, which I can do easily, however I ...
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Showposts doesn't show the number of posts indicated

on my homepage, I'm using several loops to display posts from different categories in various sections of the page. The code I'm adding before the loop is : <?php ...
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Filter subpages in while loop from WP Query object

I'm looking to optimize a page where I'm using several queries (with WP Query) to retrieve similar data, and I'm considering merging these queries together then filtering for relevant data once ...
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Home page loop with pagination problem

I used a loop to display posts from specific categories, then add the code for WP_Paginate plugin under that loop ... below my posts I see pagination links from 1 --> 5 , however when I press page 2 ...
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Loop with slider (slider not loading)

In my slider.php I have a loop that calls for a custom post type. That custom post type has a meta box for a slide url (link/title/etc). I can see the loop and everything else is working because in ...
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Sort by category and then date?

I'll try to be as clear as possible. My Wordpress site has multiple custom categories and posts types all which need to be displayed on the home page blogroll. But I need the first post on the ...
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Listing Specific Categories from Current Post with Depth

I've been on this for sometime and been having a ton of issues to find a proper way to do what I'm trying to achieve. An Example would be as follows: I have a featured Image with a rollover and I ...
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How to looping taxonomy terms?

is there any way to loop terms in a way they display in menu? Eg: Let say I have 2 taxonomies in a post type - tax1 and tax2. They are not hierarchical to each other. If I have posts that have ...
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Only show posts with image and the correct ammount of posts in loop

This script makes a loop showing only posts with images, but I have a problem. It doesnt show the right ammount of posts pr page. Probably because it counts the total nr of posts, including the ones ...
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help with the loop. i have more posts than i want to fit on one page

I am working on using the wordpress loop to call posts from my wordpress blog into my website. i have my loop set up to grab the 10 most recent posts under the portfolio category and display them on ...
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Displaying Posts Using a Custom Query with a Custom Field and a term_id

I'd like to display a list of posts in a category of a taxonomy using a Custom Field. Here's my code: if($current_term->term_id=='143') { $querystr = " SELECT wposts.* FROM ...
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query_posts and sub pages?

I have a Page layout like this Parent Page - Sub page 1 -- sub sub 1 -- sub sub 2 -- sub sub 4 - Sub page 2 -- sub sub 1 -- sub sub 2 -- sub sub 4 I want to query every single child page, ...
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Limit wordpress posts loop to continue onto another page

Theres a site i did that on the home page, i created kind of like a news box type of thing which is what the client wanted... the posts bit im using to limit the posts on the index page is ...

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