@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 can be overwritten from everyone before your check runs. That’s the point of global variables: global access. $post for instance is … Read more
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=post&category_name=company’); if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $count++; ?> /// Post Content Goes Here // <?php endwhile; endif; ?> Which Output posts inside Loops something like this… Post Goes Here …. Other … Read more
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 itself: if(has_shortcode(get_the_content(), ‘gallery’)){ $pattern = get_shortcode_regex(); preg_match(“/$pattern/s”, get_the_content(), $matches); echo do_shortcode($matches[0]); } But this … Read more
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 wish to use shortcodes because I would like to add additional classes for styling etc. ) I also found … Read more
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 that query with another? Basically if i do this: $number1 = new WP_Query($multisitequery); Can i merge it with: … Read more
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, ‘parent ‘ => $post->ID, ‘hierarchical’ => 0, ‘sort_column’ => ‘menu_order’, ‘sort_order’ => ‘asc’ ); $mypages = get_pages( $args ); foreach( $mypages as $post … Read more
I’m trying to use nested loops with the posts to posts plugin. The loops both work, but the problem arises after the second nested loop ($issue). I want to access the $publication loop again, but the data is still the $issue data. wp_reset_query() will reset right back to the main loop in single.php which I … Read more
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 criteria.’); ?></p> <?php endif; ?> Code taken from The Loop WordPress Codex page. Why should I put if part? It seems like if there is … Read more
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. How can I achieve this? 4 When your going through your loop add this: global $post; $post … Read more
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 WP_Query technically will find results in the database, but I’d like to override that somehow to force it … Read more
