Conditional for Custom Post Types

Question

I have a query that pulls custom post types and regular posts, but how could I tell it to offset just one post type in the query?

My query:

<?php query_posts( array(
      'posts_per_page' => 10,
      'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1 ),
 ));
?>

But I want it to include:

If 'Post Type' exists, offset by 1.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

What you're trying to do is not going to be able to be done via a single query. Not sure why you want to get all posts of all post types.

But, in order to do what you want, you will have to just have php logic check if it is the first post in that post type and if so, skip it.

Answer 2

Not quite sure what you mean by If 'Post Type' exists but could you do something like:

<?php 
    query_posts( 
        array( 
            'posts_per_page' => 10, 
            'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1 ), 
            if("Post Type exists?"){ 'offset' => 1 }
    )); 

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Answer 3

As Kevin Langley Jr. says, you'll probably need to use php logic to do this.

You'll need to modify this for you query but in your loop try adding a flag for the post type:

$firstOfPostType = true; //set your flag to true initially

if( have_posts() ) : while( have_posts() ) : the_post();
if( $firstOfPostType == true && $post->post_type == "YOUR POST TYPE" ){
    continue;// Skip this iteration
    $firstOfPostType = false;// set this to false so it doesn't run again.
}

[edit: to add formatted code as supplied in comments]

This may work. Depending on what's in content-POSTFORMAT.php which is brought in by get_template_part() you may need to put the code in there.

<?php 

query_posts( 
array( 
    'posts_per_page' => 10, 
    'paged' => ( get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1 ), 
    )
); 


$posts = get_posts( 
    array ( 
        'numberposts' => '10', 
        'post_type' => array ( 
            'post', 
            'episodes', 
            'featured-stories' 
        ), 
    ))
; 
$firstOfPostType = true;
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); 

if( $firstOfPostType == true && $post->post_type == "episodes"){ 
    $firstOfPostType = false;
    continue;
}

?> 


<?php 
    static $count2 = 0; 
    if ($count2 == "10") { break; } 
    else { ?> 
        <?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?> 
        <?php $count2++; } ?> 
<?php endforeach; ?>