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Get all posts starting with first two letters in Wordpress

I have a plugin in which an alphabetical list is posted where people can click on a letter and they get the posts with that letter. So if they click on A, they see all post titles starting with the ...
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Perform query with meta_value date

I am trying to perform a query on a custom-type post using the value of a custom field. This field contains a string date: dd.mm.yyyy. The post type name is 'event' The custom field name is ...
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Different layout based on post amount?

Is it possible to change the layout of the query posts depending on how many there are? So simple query page listing posts... Up to 4 posts show them in a list. If there are 4 posts and over show ...
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Displaying posts by year

I'm trying to display posts on the homepage from the current year only. I am using the following: <?php if ( is_front_page()) { ?> <?php $current_year = date('Y'); ?> <?php ...
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Query for first 3 posts to change the look and feel

Is there a way to query for the first three recent posts and then change how they display on the front page? I want the first three posts of my blog to show differently than the rest of them i.e. ...
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using post__in allow duplicate post id

I have an array of ids in a specific order. I use post__in in my query to get posts from this array. I have some duplicate post IDs that I need to show twice in the page but the query seems to ignore ...
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Custom Post type showing up in loop, regular posts are not showing up

Every one knows the basic WordPress loop, every one knows that if you want just posts in a loop you put query_posts("post_type=post"); BEFORE the loop. which I have done. The problem is I have a ...
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How to query a custom post type with a taxonomy filter but display post type archive page?

I'm filtering the main query of Jigoshop with my own taxonomy with this hook (The file responsible for Jigoshop queries that I'm hooking, Jigoshop hooks onto WP 'request' filter): add_filter( ...
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Creating pages and getting their values from the database table

I need to make inquries from my new website. I want to know whether Wordpress is capable of this: Say it I have such a table: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `mytable` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL ...
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Adding Category Argument into an Array for WordPress Query

I'm new to customizing WordPress and am looking to query an array of posts within a certain category. I have a display that's showing an array of all posts from the site: $arguments = array( ...
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How to solve this without flushing the rewrite rules for each post query the visitor triggers?

Actually I have the problem that I provide a menu link (predefined in theme) to the latest post of a specific custom post type. I achieve this by the following function … function ...
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Page navigation doesn't show when query category

Problem: when I do www.example.com?cat=4 or choose category through custom menu or from category widget it shows only first page without navigation at the bottom, where it supposed to be. It's the ...
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Counter code for paginated category pages in wordpress

I am trying to customize the category template whereby I wish to show the ordered list of 10 posts on each page. I am using the following code in the loop: <?php $counter = 1; ...
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Custom MySQL query to list post

I have the following query: SELECT p.* FROM orders_items oi INNER JOIN products pr ON pr.`post_id` = oi.`product_id` INNER JOIN posts p ON p.`ID` = pr.`post_id` AND p.`post_type` ...
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How to limit post query to only return a total count of items with certain post statuses?

I have a couple functions that are creating an admin table to display on my custom dashboard page. I'm having a little trouble with the function that determines what pages to display because I'm not ...
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WP_Query ordered by custom field that is a date string?

Each of my posts have a single custom field that is a string of a date (not the date of the post). Instead of my theme's current query, which orders by published date, I want to order by this custom ...
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Using dynamic conditions in 'posts_where' filter

I have the following code which gives be posts that are published in the last 100 days function smbd_cats_by_days ($where = '') { $where .= " AND post_date < '" . date('y-m-d', ...
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Exclude posts by post meta value

I have constructed this query to sort posts on the home page by a set position number in a custom field. However, I need to be able to exclude posts with the position set to '0'. Below is the code ...
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WP_Query vs get_posts

I have read a number of questions on SE regarding these but I still can't figure the exact difference wrt usage. Would it be true to say that I would probably use WP_Query for the majority of ...
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Query Page Content From Theme Options?

I'm trying to create a slider where you choose what pages are shown in the slider, using a theme options panel based on the https://github.com/vauvarin/options-framework-theme That lists the pages in ...
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posts_per_page option limits the number of Gallery items

I have noticed that if I have a query where posts_per_page are set to 4, any (image) gallery that belongs to one of those posts will too have only 4 items (although when I create the gallery from Add ...
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How do I query for a post by custom field?

I have a custom field called "song-id" and I'd like to lookup a post by a song-id value. Can someone give me the code snippet for it? (bonus: also looking for a code to use the permalink in the post ...
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How to modify the query to exclude posts by slug?

How can I modify my query in order to exclude certain posts by slug? Is it possible? query_posts(array('category_name' => 'Mycat', 'posts_per_page' => -1)); Ty
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How to Loop within a Loop (Display Children and then Grandchildren)

I am trying to develop a query for WordPress that will allow me to display a list of child pages with titles only, and then under each child page title, a list of grandchilden (children of the child) ...
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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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Retrieve or Query Pages by ID

I have a problem with my code, I want to display 3 specific pages on my homepage but my code is not working.. here's the code.. <?php $args = array( 'post_type' => ...
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How to order posts by modified date without using 'query_posts'?

I have an example basic wordpress theme template here for you. First, please take a quick look at it to get an idea. <?php get_header(); ?> <div id="primary"> <div ...
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How to check a list or feed of all posts under a category and tag?

Consider this question from the point-of-view of a visitor to a WordPress blog, and not as a WordPress blog admin who can edit those numerous PHP files. How can I see a list of all the posts under a ...
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How to query for most viewed posts and show top 5

Here is how I am getting the views for one post: function getPostViews($postID){ $count_key = 'post_views_count'; $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true); ...
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How to grab data (titles, thumbnails and custom fields) from multiple posts to populate a new array efficiently?

I need to know the most efficient method to grab 3 pieces of data from from multiple posts: Post title Thumbnail Custom Field I am attempting to build a Google map of posts using data stored in WP ...
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Get posts by meta data OR title

I have a working query that calls all my posts that have a certain meta value for one of two meta keys: $term = $_GET['term']; $args = array( 'post_type' => 'some_cpt_name' ,'meta_query' ...
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How can I override one post and make it display content for another post?

I have two pages on my Wordpress site: mysite.com/?p=100 mysite.com/?p=200 I think I should be able to hook into Wordpress' actions somewhere and re-query the post, so that content for ...
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pagination in author.php template returns 404 error

Hi to the community!!! I need some help with pagination in author.php template. I have pagination working in all my loops except in authors.php that i get a 404 error. In my settings/reading i have ...
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Wp get all the sub pages of the parent using wp query

Here is my code $my_wp_query = new WP_Query(); $all_wp_pages = $my_wp_query->query(array('post_type' => 'page','post_parent'=>$parid,'orderby'=>'title','order'=>'ASC' )); It displays ...
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Custom Query num_rows returns wrong amount

So I have a custom query that fetches all posts in a given category. I am trying to get the number of rows returned but it is giving me the wrong number. Instead of 11, I am getting 14. Does anyone ...
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Wordpress Search Filter Only for Page with Child of Child of Child of Child of Child

after browsing question from this site I found the workaround for this: function SearchFilter($query) { if ($query->is_search) { global $post; $query->set( 'post_parent', 21 ...
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Problem with 'post__not_in'

I am running a custom query below each post, to get other post from its category. Now I want to exclude the current post. This is my Query: <?php // related_posts(); $exclude_post = ...
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Tricky WP Query

I am trying to use wp_query (or another native Wordpress query class) to do the following: get all posts WHERE ( post_type = 'post' AND category = 7 ) OR ( post_type = 'case-studies' AND meta_key = ...
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Best Query for blog posts

I am not getting any headway in this one problem I have a separate homepage from the normal blog page. However the site needs a blog so How do I structure a query that will display something like the ...
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Get the ID of the latest post

Been all over looking for the best way to do this. I want to get the ID of the latest post of a certain post_type. How can I do this in the cheapest way possible (by cheapest I mean using the least ...
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Using ajax with paging and a custom sub-query

I have a page that uses three queries to retrieve a variety of content. One of those queries grabs posts that are related to the topic of the page. Since these posts can be of all sorts and related ...
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Sort X categories by last update and show image

I want to display X categories, and sort them by last update. I also want to grab the image of the latest post with the category. <img src="<?php echo ...
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How to limit search to first letter of title?

I was wondering if there was a way to make the search only look for the first letter in the posts title, basically let's say my search query is www.mysite.com/?s=q I'd like to get all posts that start ...
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Adding Variables to post query

How do I add custom variables to the wordpress query without having to hit the database twice. In the example below I want to add some meta filters. All this code works fine but I have been running ...
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query_posts() ALWAYS displays something?

OK, I'm using posts_query() to display posts. The problem is, at least in my case, posts_query() always outputs something. For example: <?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? ...
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Each post is showing twice in my custom query…?

I've created a custom query to pull all posts from a custom post type, ordered by comment count. It's your run-of-the-mills custom query: <?php $querystr = " SELECT wposts.* FROM ...
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Alter query on edit.php

What's the best way to alter the query being run on the Posts Edit screen (edit.php)? The current method I'm using is by passing an argument to the global $wp_query like so: $wp_query->query( ...
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When should you use WP_Query vs query_posts() vs get_posts()?

It seems like half the tutorials in the codex and around the blogosphere use query_posts() and half use WP_Query. What's the deal?