Questions tagged [wp-query]
"wp-query" ambiguously refers to one of two things. 1) WP_Query is a class native to WordPress which allows users to query the posts database using a number of criteria. 2) $wp_query is the global variable that holds the main query object prepared by WordPress based on a given request.
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When should you use WP_Query vs query_posts() vs get_posts()?
It seems like half the tutorials in the Codex and around the blogosphere use query_posts() and half use WP_Query.
They all do similar things, so when should I use one over the others?
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When to use WP_query(), query_posts() and pre_get_posts
I read @nacin's You don't know Query yesterday and was sent down a bit of a querying rabbit hole. Before yesterday, I was (wrongly) using query_posts() for all my querying needs. Now I'm a little bit ...
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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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Using wp_query is it possible to orderby taxonomy?
My question is simple, I'm using WP_Query to retrieve some custom type posts filtering by a taxonomy using tax_query.
Now my problem is I would like to orderby the taxonomy, but from documentation ...
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Get all categories and posts in those categories
I am looking for a solution that allows me to print the following:
Cat 1 Cat 2 Cat 3
Post 1 Post 1 Post 1
Post 2 Post 2 Post 2
Post 3 Post ...
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meta_query with meta values as serialize arrays
I'm working on a project in which I'm creating a custom post type and custom data entered via meta boxes associated with my custom post type. For whatever reason I decided to code the meta boxes in ...
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Pagination returns 404 after page 20
I got a paged loop that pulls in 4 posts per page from custom post type. It works great, with the only downside that the pagination wont go over the page/20 everything after that is 404, and the ...
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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 $post?
So what? The global variable ...
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Query to sort a list by meta key first (if it exists), and show remaining posts without meta key ordered by title
I'm working on a custom taxonomy term page template where we want the items that are connected to the term sorted by a publication date (custom date field) - and if there are multiple items on the ...
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Can i merge 2 new WP_Query($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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Using pre_get_posts with WP_Query
I was reading Stephen Harris's excellent answer to this question regarding the use of WP_query(), query_posts() and pre_get_posts.
He says "pre_get_posts is a filter, for altering any query. It is ...
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How to use a custom post type archive as front page?
I'd like to use a custom post type archive as a site's front page, so that
http://the_site.com/
is a custom post type archive displayed according to my archive-{post-type}.php file.
Ideally I ...
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Combining queries with different arguments per post type
I am building a section on a site where I am merging two different post types into one loop, and then displaying them randomly. The problem is, I'm having a hard time finding a way to limit the amount ...
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The next_posts_link() works only with original $wp_query
I've got custom template that I want to display paged blog posts. This is the beginning of my file:
$wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
if($wp_query->have_posts()){
while($wp_query->...
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How to paginate attachments in a secondary query as gallery?
I have this code that shows all images attached to my post-type.
Is there a way to paginate those? I have like 25 pics and I wan't to avoid scroll as much as I can.
Code:
<div class="galleries ...
