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 done via a WPDB query, but that just seems like massive rope to jump … Read more
I have a custom post type called ‘episode’. Attached to ‘episode’ I have a custom taxonomy called ‘video_type’ that contains two terms: “bonus-footage” and “episode”; “episode” contains two child terms “season-1” and “season-2” (other seasons will be added in the future). I want to grab only the most recent post of the ‘episode’ type but … Read more
I’m using the following code to retrieve posts: <?php $featuredPosts = new WP_Query(); $featuredPosts->query(‘showposts=5&cat=3’); while ($featuredPosts->have_posts()) : $featuredPosts->the_post(); ?> <h1><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/8031/<?php the_permalink() ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h1> <div class=”meta”> By <?php the_author() ?> </div> <div class=”storycontent”> <?php the_excerpt(); ?> </div> <?php endwhile; ?> Do I need to use wp_reset_query()? If I do, where should I place it? … Read more
I’m working on a custom taxonomy term page template where we want the items that are connected to the term sorted by a publication date (custom date field) – and if there are multiple items on the same day (formatted like YYYY-MM-DD) to then sort those by title, and finally sort by title if the … Read more
I am curious whether WordPress is able to run nested meta_query, with each having different relation keys? As of WordPress 3.0, tax_query is able to perform this function; I’m wondering whether this has an equivalent with meta_query. $results = query_posts( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘event_id’, ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, array( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, array( … Read more
I want to retrieve the default value of Post per page (the value that is set in settings->reading. I’ve looked around and so far I’ve only found ways to query it. problem is i dont want to change what was set i just want to retrieve it for pagination purposes. i thought of using $something->post_count.(i … Read more
I have the following query which I call in my taxonomy.php template via query_brands_geo(‘dealers’, ‘publish’, ‘1’, $taxtype, $geo, $brands); This function works perfectly. However after reading codex for query posts it mentioned pre_get_posts as a preferred way to alter the default query. Would the pre_get_posts be more efficient then my wp_query function below? If so … Read more
I have a form with some checkboxes and inputboxes selectboxes and it shows what the user wants via an ajax call. The problem is that when the user click on the item and the detail page is shown and then decide to go back to the previous page he needs to click and select his … Read more
I have been days over this issue now. Initially it was, how to store a user’s follower data in database, for which I got couple of nice recommendations here at WordPress . After, following the recommendations I have added a new table like this: id leader_id follower_id 1 2 4 2 3 10 3 2 … Read more
I am searching for a way by which i can print the executed sql query just after the : $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare(“INSERT INTO tbl_watchprosite SET keywords=%s,url_to_post=%s,description=%s, date_captured=%s,crawl_id=%d, image_main=%s,images=%s,brand=%s, series=%s,model=%s,condition=%s,box=%s, papers=%s,year=%s,case_size=%s,status=%s,listed=%s, asking_price=%s,retail_price=%s,payment_info=%s,forum_id=%d”, $this->getForumSettings()->search_meta,$element->href,$post_meta[‘description’],current_time(‘mysql’),$cid,$post_meta[‘image_main’],$images,$post_meta[0],$post_meta[1],$post_meta[2],$post_meta[3],$post_meta[4],$post_meta[5],$post_meta[6],$post_meta[7],$status,$post_meta[9],$post_meta[10],$post_meta[11],$this->getForumSettings()->ID) ); This would be great if i can see what values are going in the query. Thanks 4 The $wpdb object has some properties … Read more
