I’m going to write a function to return the next/prev post in a specific category. can anyone tell me what the differences would be in using $wpdb
as opposed to WP_Query()
; eg new WP_Query(args)
? what determines which of these should be used?
cheers,
Gregory
3 s
The wpdb
class is the interface with the database. WP_Query
uses wpdb
to query the database. You should use WP_Query
when dealing with the native WordPress tables, to integrate your code properly with the WordPress environment. Use wpdb
directly when you need to access data in your own tables.