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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Using categories & “stickyness” together
I've got a custom query on my homepage showing all posts in a certain category. I need this query to respect sticky posts, but it seems from my research that category queries ignore stickyness. My ...
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meta query not showing any results?
I'm trying to show result for a custom field that is not empty on a custom post type but getting no results?
<?php
if (have_posts()) :
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Query posts by custom post type and custom taxonomy
I am writing a custom loop query to filter through a custom post type and custom taxonomy. I have replaced any variables with static values for the purpose of showing you what result I want.
$args = ...
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How to set posts per page using WP_Query()
I'm trying to set the number of posts_per_page dynamically using my own variable. This code works fine:
query_posts( $query_string . "&posts_per_page=" . $myvar )
// then display the loop using ...
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use query_posts to return a post OR a page by ID
I'm building a custom homepage for a client where they want to have a few changeable boxes to link to specific pages, or posts, within the site. I've added custom fields to the homepage so that they ...
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How do you Query posts with nothing in common?
We can get multiple posts manually in a page, but that's generated in a template, AFTER the default query returned something else (page/post, etc)
How do you query multiple posts in a public query, ...
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Unable to display multiple post types in same query (WPML WP_Query)
I'm sure there's some very easy explaination for this, but I'm stuck. I am just trying to put a nice, simple recent posts element on the front-page of a site and for some reason when I try to use:
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query_posts and pagination, still stuck after much research
I need to paginate some custom posts...I can’t see why but I’m getting 404’s when going to the next page. Here’s my code:
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts( ...
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Advanced Tax Query
Below is my tax query, at the moment this returns all posts which have at least one of the specified terms.
Is there a way I can have it return only posts which have ALL of the specified terms?
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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 recent posts from several categories
i'd like to list my 10 most recent posts but from certain categories only -
anyone can tell me how to do this?
thanks
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Query Posts or Get Posts by custom fields, possible?
If I were to take a standard query post.
<?php query_posts('post_type=payment'); while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>
Only this time I would like to query the post by 2 custom fields that it ...
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greatest() function returns undefined property
I'm using the mysql GREATEST() function to compare two table fields and display in a loop either one with the highest integer value. The 2 fields consist of vote scores for posts: UP or DOWN.
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How to use query_posts() with a date filter on a custom field?
I have defined a custom post type that uses a meta field to store dates.
In my functions.php I have the following code which saves the start date. The format of the date that is sent in the startdate ...
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How to fetch all posts in a category that were published between two given dates?
I need to be able to get all posts in the blog that were published in between two dates. The get_posts() API call doesn't seem to provide a method for limiting the time period of the returned results ...
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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, $count_key, true);
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Custom post type archive 404's with paginate_links
im using paginate_links function to create pagination on my custom post type archives, no matter what i do im hitting 404 errors when going to view page 2 (ie clicking to go on one page in the ...
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Why is that gdsr_sort=thumbs (GD start rating plugin) only works with query_posts and not with WP_Query?
This correctly sort posts by thumbs vote (GD star rating plugin):
<?php query_posts('gdsr_sort=thumbs&post_type=bbp_reply&posts_per_page=2&post_parent='.$post->ID); ?>
<?php ...
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How do i paginate query_posts with numeric pagination?
I have post type called blog and i'm showing posts for the type using query_posts, eg.
query_posts('post_type=blog');
I would like to add pagination for this post type in the following format.
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Select category in custom query
I'm sure this question is asked alot, but I cannot figure it out, since all the different ways to query posts are confusing me..
Here is my current code.
How can I tell the code to only get posts ...
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Query for posts in 2 taxonomies
I am currently using the following code to display a list with links to posts in a specific CPT and taxonomy:
<?php
$custom_terms = get_terms('videoscategory');
foreach(array($custom_terms as ...
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Trouble Making WP_Query paged
I'm using the query below in the index.php file as the main query, whenever I try to go to the 2nd page I get a 404 error, I tried using posts_per_page but to no avail.
<?php
$args = array(
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Order posts by custom field and if custom field is empty return remaining posts
I have an archive page ordered by a numeric value in a custom field. This returns the ordered posts correctly, but does not display posts that don't have a custom field.
$paged = ...
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Sorting Posts Via Custom Taxonomy Values Using Checkboxes?
I am working on a project that has a dropdown of custom taxonomy values called "Disciplines", there are only 4 of them in the dropdown. The way it has been designed is that you can select more than ...
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Filtering posts by post meta data
I want to filter posts in such a way that only posts, for which get_post_meta($post->ID, "project_cat", true) (it returns a post ID) is equal to my specified value, are shown.
Any way to do this?
I ...
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Dynamically excluding current page id
I'm attempting to create a "related posts" section on pages using query_posts. I'm wanting to use this simply because we want to show random posts from one category on one page, so a plugin would be ...
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Return all custom meta data for one custom post type
I've set up a custom post type which has three custom meta fields: name, latitude, longitude. Each post already shows the name on an integrated map based on it's latitude and longitude.
I now would ...
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making random query button using $_GET
Im trying to make my post random when i lick on my button using $_GET but it just keeps refreshing my page instead of refreshing with the random post.
<a href="<?php echo $my_query; ...
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Order posts using a custom array
I have an array of post ids which I'm passing to query_posts using 'post__in'.
My question is how can I use the order from my array rather than ordering by 'date' etc?
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how can i get posts from custom post type particular taxonomy category
I have registered custom post type Article in my template using register_post_type function. and i also having taxonomy category for this article posts.
Here i want to filter the posts under ...
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Read More is not working in query posts
I have Query_posts in my page.
the posts have tags to separate for read more,
But while doing query posts it is pulling all content for <?php the_content('read more..');?>
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how can i use custom field in query post
I want to get all featured items using query post. featured is meta_key using custom field plugin.
I tried bellow,but it failed
$featured_item = new ...
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how to group custom post type posts by custom taxonomy terms
I would really appreciate if you could help me :) I'm very stuck and don't know how to proceed.
I have a custom post type called event and 2 custom taxonomies registered for it:
event_type with ...
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query_posts for child pages
I am having problems looking for info on the codex on how to query for child pages. It seems to be missing the reference for the available parameters
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query_posts and only show results if a custom field is not empty
How do I query_posts and only show results if a custom field is not empty or has a value.
I want to put in a url in a custom field and only show these pages if there is a url?
current code but I ...
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Is it possible to query_posts using post__in and then Loop through them in the ordered they were queried?
query_posts( array ( 'post__in' => array( 5, 76, 21, 56, 3 ) ) );
I'd like to query the Loop using post__in and a set Wordpress IDs. I'd then like to run through the Loop in the exact order of ...
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How to insert content from another Custom Post type into Post?
Say I have a custom post type called "Performers". This gets populated with different bands/performers. These posts have a featured image as well as custom fields (mp3 file, facebook link, myspace ...
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using multiple meta_key and meta_value in query_posts
how can i use multiple meta_key and meta_value in query_posts?
For example, I want to find multiple content with two different meta_key and meta_value. How do I do this?
i using this code but not ...
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Integrating post archive wtih another source and preserving date ordering
I'm pulling posts from Instagram into the WP basic archive view; but I want things to display in order of date, and not screw up paging (too much). The outcome should look like this:
BLOG POST JUNE ...
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Display posts of the last 7 days
I'm trying to display the 5 best rated posts of the last week (7 days) on my website, however I can't seem to figure out how to display them.
Here's what I've achieved so far but it doesn't seem to ...
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Get posts from sites in Multisite?
I'm trying to pull multiple sites posts. For example, I can pull out a single site
posts by a category and total posts 10.
But I'm trying to pull out both posts from two separate Multisite blogs 1 ...
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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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Next/Prev posts on same page
Hello WordPress Users,
I'm stuck with a problem building my wordpress website and I can't figure out what to do about it.
Currently I'm showing 2 posts form the category 'News' at the page 'News'. ...
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Create dropdown list post
I want to create a drop down list that will list all the posts in the category. I want the drop down list to appear on every post. So for example if I view a post that belongs to category Apples it ...
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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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Custom search filter causes menu and query_posts problems
I'm using a custom search filter (using my custom query var type), like so:
function fteh_pre_get_posts( $query ){
if( isset( $query->query_vars['type'] ) )
$types = explode( ',', ...
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I would like to give special promotion for the first 100 posts in my blog? Can anyone tell me how to do that?
My website is a multi author blog. I would like to give special promotion for the first 100 published posts in my blog?
What is the proper way to implement it? I mean should i add some meta value ...
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Custom post types instead of regular post's categories in a page template
So I got this template which originally queried regular WP posts by their categories so that the page would show a category name for "category 1" as a headline and then posts from that category below ...
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WP_Query last five posts, simply ordered by meta_value
I can't believe I'm asking this question. It feels like such a simple method, yet I've poured over the WP pages and dozens of similar questions to no avail, so here it is...
I've got a WP_Query with ...
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Working with query_posts ( arrays and query strings)
I'm trying to use the search query along with an array of arguments to narrow down search results, but I'm failing horribly. This is what I have so far.
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? ...
