"wp-query" ambiguously refers to one of two things. 1) WP_Query is a class native to Wordpress which allows users to query the posts database using a number of criteria. 2) $wp_query is the default object that holds the main query object on each WordPress page.

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What is an efficient way to query based on post_meta?

The problem I am having is when I allow users to filter posts it overpowers the database and things run extremely slow. I am unsure what the best way to query posts using meta values is. My site has a ...
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How to query different post types in specific order?

I have 3 posts types, articles, news and tips. On the home page I want to query 20 posts in this order: article, article, news, news, tip, ...// same order again until 20 If I use a custom query ...
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How do I use wp_query for WordPress search?

I would like to create a custom search form to search posts based on the values of about 4 custom fields. I tried using wp_query to achieve this but so far my biggest problem is that the I don't get ...
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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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Get list of months with posts

I am trying to add a filter on my custom theme based on post month, similar with the archives but with some differences. What is the best way to get a list of months in witch we have posts? Thanks, ...
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Looping through tabular data

I am trying to create a table containing information that is a result of two different loops. The first loops through a list of custom post types to display team names. The other is to provide data ...
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Custom search: Search posts but display parent page in results

I'm using Wordpress 3.5.1 with a modified twentytwelve theme. My main site structure is based on the Smooth Slider plugin (jQuery Cycle). I have Pages that contain only a shortcode (for example, ...
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wp-query Shortcode in Gravity Forms Notification

I have the following code that runs two wp-query loops upon form submission to display specific posts depending on the users choices in the form (The form fields are radio buttons with values that ...
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How to get only ONE category of “Portfolio” posts to display on main page rather than ALL categories?

I have a section on my main page that displays a new “Portfolio” post each time I write one no matter what category I assign them to. What I want to do is make the main page only display one specific ...
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Post Type => Any conundrum

I have a number of regular posts and pages in a regular category called "Featured". I have also installed a plugin called "Event Organizer" that creates its own custom post type called "Event" and has ...
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Recent Posts slider, using WP_Query(), loads duplicate sliders

I have written a small piece of code for Wordpress that will show the most recent top 4 posts in a slider (the Filament Group Responsive Carousel). It works, displaying the posts and sliding them etc, ...
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Pagination problem after WP_Query with tag filtering

I have a problem with a custom WP_Query. I want a page with all posts with a specific tag. This is the code I'm using: <?php //save old query $temp = $wp_query; //clear $wp_query; $wp_query= ...
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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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twentyeleven_content_nav hook no longer outputs navigation link after 3.5 upgrade

After upgrading to 3.5, I discovered that navigation has disappeared outside of the main index page. Theme is TwentyEleven and I've verified that this still occurs after disabling all plugins. ...
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comparing dates in custom field

i have a function which should return the future event date: function get_upcoming_exercises( $limit = -1 ) { $args = array( 'post_type' => 'px_event', 'posts_per_page' ...
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How to query custom post then display sections by meta value

This seems like an easy thing to do but I am missing something here. I have a custom post type called "recipient" and a meta check box called "yes_current" - (we help children with cancer and run ...
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WP_Query - meta fields numeric

I'm having trouble with the code below. Attempting to do a query against meta data stored with the posts, in the mls post type. I think I know what the issue is, but not how to fix it. I am ...
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Multiple Orderby's using random order WP_Query

Here is the setup. The site in question is a website that displays listings. Each listing has a rank (1-3). Basically it's a listing type... small, medium & large to determine how much the ...
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shortcode using multiple WP_Query's with multiple category names not fully functional

we're working on a bilingual site, Larry A. Downs all the posts are categorized into two categories, english or spanish, along with other categories. so every post has multiple categories, i've ...
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Display featured posts for a custom post type by taxonomy

Ok, the quick explanation: I'm using a custom post type, 'lakes'. And, using custom taxonomies to organize them. They are: state, watertype and county. I've created a 'page' for each state that ...
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Loop to fetch 3 post_thumbnail instances from 3 most recent custom post types named “portfolio”

I am trying to display 3 post_thumbnails from a custom post type "portfolio" on my homepage template. So one from post 'A' , one from post 'B' and one from post 'C' The image from post A will be set ...
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Get all custom_post_type posts + blog posts from one category in a single query

Is there a way to query posts from multiple post_type's and filter the normal blog posts by a category? I am trying to display the 10 latest custom_post_type posts and blog posts on my homepage in a ...
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How can i use ajax with check-box categories

Hy how can i build a search filter someting like that ( ex: http://tvpedia.org/gen/actiune) with wordpress, I have a custom post type name: Locatii, that custom post type have categories. Ex: Cat ...
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using WP_Query() in magento it shows

the magento directory is example.com/app the wordpress directory is example.com/blog/wp-blog-header.php** when i using WP_Query() in magento's ...template\catalog\product\view.phtml it shows an ...
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Exclude post formats in custom loop

I'm trying to exclude all post formats but standard from a page template loop that displays 4 latest posts. For some reason I can't get the query to work. This is my page template global $paged, ...
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Converting multiple loops into one single loop with pagination

I am using Isotope jquery plugin to filter/sort posts in Wordpress but to correctly filter the posts into the right order I have needed to output each category one after the other. To do this I've ...
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Multiple keyword search

I have a custom search where I want to enter a keyword or phrase into the search box, and then by pressing enter it adds it to a 'search storage' (already coded, see below). Asume I have 3 posts, one ...
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Query Custom Post Type by Taxonomy

I've created a query working fine pulling posts from a specific taxonomy—but before I had only 7 taxonomies that were permanent, now I have sub taxonomies under that main taxonomy and they will be ...
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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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Order by meta values

I have 3 meta fields related to dates: year = 2012 release_date = 14 November 2012 release_date_db = 20121114 I need to show the posts from year 2012 sorted by release_date. I made this: ...
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Duplicate posts showing up in loop using infinite scroll

I'm experiencing an odd issue using Infinite Scroll for the WP_Query loop on my homepage. Half the time when the second page fires, I'm getting a few duplicate posts showing up in the second set. I ...
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search query within custom taxonomy term, post title and meta field

I want to create a search that does: Search within my custom taxonomy - custom-tags search the post title search select meta field ?? dont know search with custom post type - easy part I looked ...
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Select posts that match multiple category names, must match all categories listed

I need to search for posts that belong to multiple categories, but they must match all categories listed, as in if I list category names 'japanese' and 'dessert' the matching posts need to be in both ...
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WP_QUERY tax_query not working

$query_args = array( 'cat' => $lesson_id, 'meta_value' => $lesson_type, 'post__not_in' => array($current_post_id), 'tax_query' => array( array( ...
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How to specify a certain amount of images queried, not all?

I have a query for calling images from a post category. I am trying to control it to only query 6 images. I have tried using php count, but its not working as expected. Any ideas of what I could do ...
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Execute PHP function inside the admin area

I want to ask if there is a hook for executing php inside the admin area, my problem is I'm trying to do the get_posts wordpress function inside a popup frame using the thickbox jQuery plugin, using ...
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forming WP_Query for posts of all post types but from specific categories

I need to get post from blog, custom post type 1, custom post type 2. custom post type 3 and either from category 1 or category 2 or category 3 or category 4 or category 5 or category 6 or category 7 ...
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WP_Query do not include posts with a certain value in a custom field -

I am trying to grab the 5 most recent posts and have it exclude posts in an array that is already defined ($exclude), sticky posts and any posts that are checked off as a featured post (i.e. with the ...
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Attempt to display site authors in a carousel - User Image not Outputting inside li tags

I am attempting to display the authors of my site in a jquery carousel but for some reason my images are outputted outwith the li tags and I don't know why. Code functions.php function ...
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Pagination in wp query with transient api

I have intergrated wordpress transient system with w3 total cache. Now i can`t to do pagination for this query. <?php $paged1 = ...
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wp_pagenavi on WP_Query using customfields

I have been searching this subject for some time now, not finding a solution. First of all, sorry for my bad spelling. Im quit new to PHP, so please be gental. Im using this to list some ...
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WP_Query not retrieving by random order under parent

I currently have TWO subpages under parent page ID 43. Client testimonials.. Anyway. I have the random order thing in the query $args but the order never changes. What could I be missing? ...
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Checking url from plugin

I'm trying to change the login url from wp-login.php to simply 'login'. I'd been looking through another plugins source to find ways of doing it. Some of the applicable parts that I've got so far: ...
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Using tax_query creates a 1 = 0 or 1 = 1 in $wp_query->request

This is my first attempt at modifying the main query using the pre_get_posts action/filter This is the function currently hooked to it: function advanced_product_search_filter($query) { ...
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Custom Post Type “property” (wp-property plugin) query issues

I've got wp-property plugin installed, and I am trying to have a custom query, to retrieve data from the database. If I query posts from other post_type is ok, but when I try to query posts from the ...
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Custom WP Query from meta_value stored as serialised array

I'm using a Magic Fields 2 multicheck box to store Services which can be assigned to Case Studies. The data is stored as a serialised array in WordPress, and I need some help to extract the "related ...
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Are custom posts included when getting a categories' posts?

Would WP_Query('cat=1') display custom post types, or is that something that I have to specify? I have a custom post type, am assigning it to a category, and would like for it to be displayed when ...
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Trying to WP_Query a category

I am trying to output all the posts of a certain category but all that is happening is The page content is being outputted no posts? template page <?php /* Template Name: Blog */ ?> <?php ...
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How to write short code with if else to get page_id?

<div class="group-training"> <?php while ( $page_loop->have_posts() ) : $page_loop->the_post(); ?> <div class="entry"> <h1><?php the_title(); ...
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Get all user with both meta_value

I was wondering if there were any efficient way of fetching all user comparing two different meta_key. I am currently fetching all user compared to the first meta, then loop trough the user_id to ...