I’m looking for a way to balance the content at the homepage of my blog:
the blog has a few post types like Poscasts, Videos and Blog and I’d like to have let’s say 10 Posts on the homepage, but I’d like to make 5 of them always the lastest Blog.
Making 3 separated boxes don’t solve my problem because the posts are mixed togheter and there won’t always be as many posts of the other types.
I could think of the solution for it on pure PHP , but I’d like to get a idea on how to do this using the wordpress API, any help , reference will be welcome!
If you are still looking for an alternative that may be faster this may help you:
<?php
function customBlogFeed() {
// The Query
$the_query = new WP_Query( array ( 'post_type' => array( 'post', 'page', 'movie', 'book'), 'posts_per_page' => '6' ) );
//Your post_type array is a list of random post_types. You can add whatever you'd like to match your system.
// The Loop
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile;
// Reset Post Data
wp_reset_postdata();
}
?>
Then to get it’s output put <?php customBlogFeed(); ?> wherever you’d like this to output.
If you really want to get fancy you can hook into the post_limits Filter and limit how many posts per post type are displayed. I hope this helps you on your quest.
PS – Look into WP_Query, it will really help you out.
After some research you might actually want to look into post_clauses to get those SQL characterizations done with WP3.1+ Syntax
