Questions tagged [query-posts]
Set up The Loop with query parameters. This will override the current WordPress Loop and shouldn’t be used more than once. This must not be used within the WordPress Loop.
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Setting posts per page in query_posts
Bear with me here..
The default posts per page in the admin area is 10.
During some testing I wanted to change the posts per page for my custom post archive to 2 (in WP 3.1).
The problem is that I ...
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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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Displaying terms based on loop posts?
I have a shortcode that shows a loop for a custom post type:
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
// do something
endwhile;
Some of the posts are in categories ($term->...
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how to store wordpress loop in array?
I am working on a site. This site has a built in layout organize that uses a switch statement to organize data on a page. I want to use that to organize the homepage posts. Right now, there are 4 ...
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Sorting a query Field by date
I have my site, which at the moment is display university open-days, at the moment they are sorting by order of page title, when actually I would prefer they sorted in order of date, soonest first, ...
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If Query Post Returns 1 Post
I have been using Query Post for a newsticker which I have created so that the user navigate through the number of news by simply pressing Next & Previous buttons.
But in case if there is only 1 ...
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Post count per (day/month/year) since blog began
I'm looking to echo the number of posts per month since the blog began, and for months where there was no posts echo '0'.
This is the output I want:
January 1, February 3, March 8, April 3, ...
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Hook to return true when the_post() is used in a custom while loop
I fetch external data like this, but I also added the_post();
while($slice = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
the_post();
rest of my stuff
}
I need a hook to tell me if the_post() returns true, ...
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Multiple instances of nivo slider plugin
I’m using Wordpress as a CMS for this site
http://www.seadragon.co.uk/new_site/portfolio.html
...and it’s the first time I’ve ever used wordpress so sorry if I get the terminology wrong....
My ...
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using query_posts to pull posts out of a category in a while loop. Getting odd echo
I have a custom template file I've been workin on. I have this code performing a loop after it queries posts from a certain category. This works and I have each post configured with styled divs, but ...
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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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Query posts by meta_key whose value is an array
Let's say I'm modifying the default posts query:
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_filter' );
function my_filter( $query ) {
$query->set( 'meta_key', 'my_rating' );
$query->set( 'orderby', '...
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Querying posts with meta value that begins with a certain pattern
I am trying to create a search filter using meta_query. The only problem I'm having now is that I can't compare with wildcards. I think that's how you word it?
$keyword = 'sos';
$tlds = array('com','...
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define orderby URL with meta_key=post_views_count
I want to make an url with meta_key=post_views_count.
E.g: http://www.mysampleweb.com/?meta_key=post_views_count&orderby=meta_value&order=DESC
So the posts should be ordered by Views.
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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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Why would post_type be ignored in this query?
In the following query, post_type seems to get ignored resulting in display of all posts from my installation. What have I done wrong?
<?php
function filter_where( $where = '' ) {
$where .= " ...
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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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Possible to display posts containing a short code ?
i have some posts with a certain shortcode in them. unfortunately these posts are in different categories and contain different tags so i am not able to query them. is it possible that i run a query ...
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filter custom field values $min $max
The user needs to query posts by entering a $minPrice, $maxPrice and a category value.
Here is my query which returns no results:
function result() {
$result = array(
'cat' => ...
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show all in query_posts on category.php?
I want to be able to switch back and forth by clicking an anchor tag preferably, between showing a subset of posts and showing all posts, the code I am using is:
query_posts($query_string . '&...
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Post per page not working if no category specified
I'm going crazy...
<?php query_posts(array('cat' => 3, 'posts_per_page' => 1)); ?>
This shows 1 post (there is two in the category) >> OK
<?php query_posts(array('posts_per_page' =&...
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Echo a numerical value in query_posts
I am creating an option page for one of my wordpress themes and I am trying to ask user to enter "Number of posts to show" -
I am using "query_posts" to show posts
This is the code I modified but ...
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reference the current category being used in the category.php page
I have this code in my category.php file
<?php query_posts( array('post_type'=>'featured' ));
$featured = new WP_Query( array('posts_per_page'=>1, 'tax_query'=> ...
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Query_posts and attachments
I need some guidance on some WP code. I'm wondering if it's possible to take this code (which is grabbing all the images from the posts across my site and dumping them out):
$args = array( 'post_type'...
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How can I improve the performance of this query_posts loop?
I created a WordPress page template to build a customised XML feed for certain WordPress posts on my site. Specifically, the page template renders XML and only includes certain custom post types and ...
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How to query blogs posts of WordPress sub domain?
I am using WordPress 3.2.1 multi-user. I need to show posts from a specific sub domain in my home page, for example: http://mysite.com/sub-blog. I need to show posts from sub-blog in my home page.
Is ...
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query multiple posts by id using a string parameter, not array()
I'm looking for a way to query posts by id, and using a string as a parameter, instead of an array. Like this:
query_posts('p=153');
But I need to get multiple posts. For example with ID 153 and 154....
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Order by category titles
I have a category page called 'features' this is all fine, but the posts in the features category also belong to a certain genre of film, and it's this what I want to order the posts by on the actual ...
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Want Page Descendants when using query_posts post_parent or child_of
I'm trying to use query_posts to list all descendants of a page ID. Using post_parent only lists the first-level children.
This Trac ticket seems to address it: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/...
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Displaying links to all posts of the same category on the post page
I want to display the links to all posts of the same category of the current post on that page. I wrote the following code in the single.php file.
<?php $categories_of_this_post = get_the_category(...
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Page title in post query
How do i add the current post/page title in a post query?
I've tried this, doesn't work:
query_posts( 'posts_per_page=10category_name=&' . $post->post_title); if (have_posts()) : while (...
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How do I use pagination in WordPress?
I'm using the index.php file and editing this so that it displays two articles at a time. I'm using query_posts( $query_string . '&posts_per_page=2' ); before the main loop and it's displaying ...
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Can't get pagination to work for sticky posts only
I don't get my pagination to work. I need to filter my posts on sticky posts and display only two per page. Tried almost everything but can't get it to work. It is totally ignoring my posts_per_page ...
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Getting all ID's matching a title in a custom post type
I am trying to pull out all post ID's that have the same post title. This is in a custom post type called 'course-manager'. Here is what I have so far:
$pages = array();
$args1 = array(
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WordPress Custom Query to get Most Commented Posts in the Past 7 Days
I'm trying to do a query on wpdb to get the posts commented on most in the past week...
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
$querystr = "SELECT comment_count, ID, post_title
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Have parent category contain only one post?
Projects <-contains basic info about projects
-Proj1 <-detailed info about proj1
-Proj2 <-detailed info about proj2
-Proj3 <-detailed info about proj3
I have a post attributed to the ...
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cannot get multiple loops using tax_query
I am trying to get three loops to display. they all belong to the same post type and the same taxonomy family. but i'm trying to separate the taxonomy by three different values.
$argsOwners = array( ...
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Single-page wordpress theme navigation
I'm trying to build single-page theme. I want user to navigate thru menu with anchors (for example <a href="#About">About</a>).
I've extended Walker for wp_list_pages so it outputs anchors ...
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Post not found when filtered by category ID
On my home page I am trying to filter by a category type and limit it to one post; but I keep getting "no posts found". Here is my following code:
<?php query_posts('cat=34&showposts=1'); ?&...
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Having trouble using this post category query on multiple pages?
I have three pages on my site (Listen, Read, Watch) which each query a different post category: "listen", "read", and "watch" respectively. I created three separate php files with their own unique ...
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Display posts with tag that matches current post title
How would I show posts that have a tag who's name matches the title of the current post?
For example if you are on a post called "Hippo" at the bottom of the page I would like posts with the tag "...
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Add AJAX "Load more" on custom query block
I have a index,php with various new WP_Query all working ok, but in this block I need to implement that "AJAX thing people love - the load more posts":
<h2>Latests articles <?php ...
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Sorting multiple custom post types without a meta key/value pair by sort order
At this current moment. is it possible to sort multiple custom post/page types without a meta key/value?
I'm looking to just sort the posts by page attribute order:
What have i done so far? I've ...
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Least Number of Loops to Create Custom Homepage?
I am trying to create a custom homepage where the site content is shown as follows...
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https://i.stack.imgur.com/ykrdf.png
With separate loops this is simple... 3 individual query_posts ...
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Query Posts to fetch Posts with Unique Tag
I am trying to write a query post such that it returns a list fixed list of posts from a category along with any of the one tag associated with it. For eg:
<?php $arg = array('cat' => '1','...
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Authors List page - How to include only those with wp_user_level as Author
At my Authors template page, I want to show a complete list of Authors only (i.e. wp_user_level=2)
the code I used is like this:
$current = (intval(get_query_var('paged'))) ? intval(get_query_var('...
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Exclude categories from postquery
I asked this question without a clue what was going on. I got an answer with the code below. It worked when I got it. I tested it with shirts only, assuming it worked with the other cats. it doesn't ...
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Exclude All Posts Which Do Not Have A Tag Assigned
Basically I have regular Category Listings that include posts WITH tags and posts WITHOUT tags.
I need to modify the loop so that it ONLY includes posts which have one or more tags assigned to them.
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Change content off every sixth element
I would like to create custom post query where i will list all my posts in the list. Then the tricky bit is to add different content to sixth element off that list.
So something like this
<li>...
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