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How to fix pagination for custom loops?
I have added a custom/secondary query to a template file/custom page template; how can I make WordPress use my custom query for pagination, instead of using the main query loop's pagination?
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How to get URL of current page displayed?
I want to add custom PHP code to ensure that whenever a page on my site loads in my browser, the URL of that page is echoed to the screen. I can use echo get_permalink(), but that does not work on ...
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Counting the posts of a custom Wordpress loop (WP_Query)?
I tried tplacing this:
<?php $count = count($custom_posts); ?>
<h2><?php echo $count; ?></h2>
at the end of the loop:
<?php if ( bbp_get_forum_title() == '...
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Pagination not working with custom loop
I've got a custom loop that I'm using to display some Real Estate listings that will be available within 60 days. I'm calling it with the following function:
<?php
$sixtydays = date('Y/m/d', ...
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Meaning of "if ( is_home() && ! is_front_page() )" snippet?
I see the following code a lot in index.php files. I understand that is_front_page() returns true when viewing the Site Front Page (whether displaying the blog posts index or a static page), while ...
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Get excerpt using get_the_excerpt outside a loop
I have a code that call get_the_title() and it works, but get_the_excerpt() return empty. How can i make it work?
This code is inside a plugin called "WP Facebook Open Graph protocol". Here's the ...
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How to display Yoast SEO meta description in archive template for each post instead of the_excerpt()? [closed]
I read this question but it wasn't what I was looking for exactly. I'm new to Wordpress and a little confuse with the functions and everything.
How can I get the metadescription in the loop for each ...
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How do I exclude a custom taxonomy from the post loop
Is there a simple or easy way to exclude all posts from a custom taxonomy in the loop? I've been looking high and low, and neither SE, SO or Google seem to have a straight answer.
I know it can be ...
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4
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Can i merge 2 new WP_Query($variable) 's?
I am running a multisite network and i have setup a sql query that uses swith_to_blog(); and queries the posts.
Is there a way that i can declare the query inside a new WP_Query and actually merge ...
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Manually set global $post vars with an ID, in order to use template tags
I have a function retrieving ID's of posts by very specific means.
I need to be able to set the global $post in order to use functions like the_content(), which does not allow an ID as a parameter.
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Get post content from outside the loop
Is there a way to get the content from another outside the loop? The ID is 302 and I need to display the content of that on another page.
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Can I force WP_Query to return no results?
I'm working on a website with a search feature that allows users to search through a lot of post meta. There is a specific search pattern that I would like to forcibly return no results for. The ...
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Getting only direct child pages in WordPress with get_pages
I am trying to fetch all direct children of a page. But I am getting all children and grand children as well. Any ideas?
PHP Source:
$args = array(
'child_of' => $post->ID,
'...
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Why should I put if(have_posts()), is while(have_posts()) not enough?
I have a question about "the loop".
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your ...
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Get the children of the parent category
I'm trying to get all the children categories to display in this loop but I'm struggling with the code. This is what I have so far.
<?php $args=array('orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC');
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2
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Resetting post data to previous loop in nested loops
I'm trying to use nested loops with the posts to posts plugin. The loops both work, but the problem arises after the second nested loop ($issue). I want to access the $publication loop again, but the ...
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Display featured products through custom loop in woocommerce on template page
I would like to display 6 featured products from my woocommerce store on my home-page.php template. After some researched I found that the right way to do this was through a custom loop,( I do not ...
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2
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Query multiple custom post types in single loop
I'm aware there are several other posts that cover similar ground to what I'm about to ask.
I have three custom post types running, in addition to 'posts'. I want to run a loop that pulls all posts ...
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3
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Split Content and Gallery
Is there a way to split up the post content and the gallery short code. I want to display the gallery outside my normal content no matter how or where it is placed. I can use this to get the shortcode ...
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Print Current Post Index number within Loop
I'm working on WordPress where I have following code to get posts within loop.
<?php
$posts = $woo_options['woo_latest_entries'];
query_posts('post_type=...
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Should we trust the post globals?
@toscho left a comment to this answer which had me thinking again. How much trust should we have in the global scope, specially regarding the post globals like $post?
So what? The global variable ...
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Display all posts in a custom post type, grouped by a custom taxonomy
I’m working on a member page where I use a custom post type with a custom taxonomy. My custom post type is called member and my custom taxonomy is called member_groups.
I want to list all the members ...
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1
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Some doubts about how the main query and the custom query works in this custom theme?
I am pretty new in WordPress theme development and I'm not so into PHP (I came from Java and C#) and have the following situation in this custom theme
As you can see in the homepage I first show a ...
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answers
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How to get Author ID outside the loop
I can't get the post author ID outside the loop to make the get_the_author_meta work. So far I've tried different approaches:
1.
$author_id=$post->post_author;
2.
global $post;
$author_id=$post-...
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4
answers
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views
Get post count of current loop when using multiple queries on one page
I'm trying to get a count of the current posts inside of a loop. I'm using multiple loops on one page in my theme. So far I have:
$my_post_count = $wp_query->post_count;
But when I print $...
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3
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views
How to get posts published between a date and today?
Is it a way to get posts published between a date and today with query_posts() ?
Example : All posts published since 2012-04-01
Thanks
EDIT :
How to add the filter date on this Query Posts ?
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Have different number of posts on first page
I need to have a different amount of posts per page on the first page that on the other pages.
For example, this is what I need
Total posts: 6
First page: showing 3 posts
Following page: showing 2 ...
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Redirect loop when trying to login to /wp-admin/ [duplicate]
Stuck in an infinite loop when trying to log in to my wordpress site. I type in the URL/wp-admin and then it loops me back to the regular website, not the admin login page.
I have tried with http ...
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How to check if I'm on the last page of posts?
I want to display some text on the last page that isn't displayed on the other pages.
For example, on category pages: url.com/category/categoryname/page/6
or last page of all posts listed on the ...
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Multiple WP_Query loops with Pagination
There are a few other questions about this (and WP_Query pagination seems to be a huge question for a lot of people) so I'm trying to narrow down exactly how to make it function.
I'm able to create a ...
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How can i display the content in plaintext
i want to display my excerpt in plaintext. How can i do this?
This is my Snippet where i display the content:
<?php the_content(__( 'Weiterlesen ›','okay')); ?>
How i change the ...
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Display all posts starting with given letter?
I'm trying to build Wordpress based dictionary, basically it will have 26 pages (one for each letter):
A B C ... X Y Z
And every page will display all posts starting with given letter, so after ...
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Is it necessary to reset the query after using get_posts()?
Is it necessary to reset the query after using get_posts() ?
I have been looking at this page and I don't see any reference to get_posts() ... I can't make it out for sure from this page either.
I ...
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views
Sort pages in loop by admin's page attributes order field?
Is it possible to sort pages in the loop using the admin's order field (under page attributes)?
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How to split a loop into multiple columns
If I have a loop running from a category query like :
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query('cat=1&showposts=50&orderby=title&order=asc');?>
<ul>
<?php while ($the_query->...
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How do you get the count of posts in an archive page?
I have a custom posts archive page of the type archive-my_custom_post_type.php and I am using the "standard" loop which consists of the ever-so famous
<?php if(have_posts()) : ?>
<?php ...
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What is This esc_html_e() i wordpress php?
why do developers use
<?php esc_html_e() >?
in 404 pages, what does it mean, how does it works?
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Using a custom WP_Query with get_template_part loop
I have a query for a custom post type:
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$books = new WP_Query(array(
'post_type' => 'wiki',
'posts_per_page' => '...
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Is there any difference between the_title() and echo get_the_title()?
Just a small question. Is there any difference in using
<?php the_title() ?>
or
<?= get_the_title() ?>
Yeah, I know somebody can consider using short echo tag a bad practice, I just ...
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AJAX with loop filtering categories
I've been researching on how to make my loop with AJAX. I found some codes online and modified some parts but I can't seem to get it to work.
This is my code for the loop:
<article id="main" ...
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group search results by post type?
My site has 3 unique post types:
Default Blog posts ("post")
custom type "lesson"
custom type "series"
When the user searches the site, I would like pertinent results from all 3 post types to show ...
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how to override woocommerce specific loop or archive-product.php [closed]
so far while my woocommerce theme loop through all products in shop page i'm trying to customise and add few bootstrap classes to style it in a prober way since default styles generated causes layout ...
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remove <p> tags from the_content
I've got a post format of Image, and I am running into an issue where the image is being wrapped by a <p> tag. I want to get rid of that tag (specifically on the single.php version) of those ...
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Show posts without term
I am working on a product page where I show reviews from my post type 'reviews', if the product page title matches with my term from the taxonomy 'review-product'.
Example.
Product page title: ...
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Get first post from wp_query
How can I get the first post from a WP_Query result?
$connected = new WP_Query( array(
// Arguments
));
// This doesn't work..
echo $connected[0]->post_name;
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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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Make loop display posts by alphabetical order
With this loop I am displaying single posts on an archive page. The posts are being sorted by the category 'Banks'. In addition to that, how can I display them in alphabetical order? I've tried using ...
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the_title() shows title of the first post instead of the page title?
I'm occasionally facing this problem and not sure what causes it, any ideas?
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="content" role="main">
<h1><?php the_title(); ?>&...
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Do I need to use The Loop on pages?
I'm writing my first WordPress theme and have a question about the use of The Loop in page templates. The page templates I've looked at all follow basically the same pattern (example from Twenty ...
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How can I fetch loop of post titles via AJAX?
I have a list of the most recent post titles in sidebar.php. Here is an example of how that code looks:
<?php $args = array('posts_per_page' => 20); ?>
<?php $sidebar = new WP_Query($args)...
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