I have a custom post type called activities and a number of standard pages that are different countries. Each country has a number of activities that are available. The user needs to add a range of different activities, and then choose what country each activity is available in.
Using list pages, I have a dropdown listing all pages in the activities custom post type. The user is able add a new activity, add the content and select what country(page) this activity relates to. On that particular country page on the front-end the available activities are listed.
For each country I only want to show 3 activities. I do the standard loop getting all custom post types for activities. I have to check whether the postid of the page chosen in the drop down menu matches the current page, and if it does show the activity. Using the standard posts_per_page isn't working, as it only grabs three posts, then does the conditional statement on those to see if any matches the current id.
I guess what I want to happen is to have the posts_per_page only apply to activities that actually match the criteria of having the country page id matching the id of the country selected in the activity.
global $post;
$postid = get_the_ID();
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'activities', 'orderby' => 'date', 'order' =>'ASC','posts_per_page' => 3);
$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
$country = rwmb_meta( 'rw_activities_pages' );
// this is the drop down list of pages. It gets the ID of the country page chosen
$currentID = get_post($country);
$currentTitle = $currentID->post_title;
if ($country == $postid){
// if the activity country id matches the current page show the info
echo get_the_title();
echo $currentTitle;
echo the_content();
}
endwhile;
wp_reset_query();
Any ideas would be fantastic, as I have a couple of custom post types that do a similar thing!
Thanks in advance,
Rich
What you want to do is filter the posts in the query itself using meta_query.
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'activities',
'meta_query' => array(
'key' => 'rw_activities_page',
'value'=> $postid,
'compare'=>'='
),
'orderby' => 'date',
'order' =>'ASC',
'posts_per_page' => 3);
You might need to adjust the meta_key if that's not exactly the value it's using.
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I have a Custom Post Type called portfolio and a custom taxonomy portfolio_category that has a term called narrative.
I'm able to access the archive page using the URL /portfolio-category/narrative/.
I want the homepage to display all the items the same as on the narrative archive page without using a redirect.
I've added the following to functions.php
function custom_front_page($wp_query){
if($wp_query->get('page_id')==get_option('page_on_front')){
$wp_query->set('post_type','portfolio');
$wp_query->set('page_id',''); // empty
// fix conditional functions
$wp_query->is_page = false;
$wp_query->is_archive = true;
$wp_query->is_post_type_archive = true;
}
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','custom_front_page');
This is displaying all of the portfolio items on my homepage, but I would like it to be just showing the narrative items.
I've tried this in the php template file, but it isn't working either
<?php
$custom_query_args = array(
'post_type' => 'portfolio',
'portfolio_category' => 'narrative',
);
$custom_query = new WP_Query( $custom_query_args );
?>
How can I get just the narrative items for to show on the homepage?
You're on the right lines but you are not searching by custom taxonomy correctly. Searching by custom taxonomy is different than searching by categories.
If you take a look at the WP_Query documentation for searching by taxomony, you will see that you need to use tax_query to search posts for a custom taxonomy term.
You can use the code below in the template file you use for your homepage. The comments explain what each part does:
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'portfolio',
'posts_per_page' => 5, // number of results to get, or -1 to get all of them
'tax_query' => array(
array( // important note, this is an array inside the tax_query arrays
'taxonomy' => 'portfolio_category', // your custom taxonomy
'field' => 'slug', // what to search, e.g. slug, term_id, name
'terms' => 'portfolio' // the term(s) to search for. If you want to search for multiple terms, you can use an array
)
)
)
// do a new query with your arguments
$portfolio_query = new WP_Query($args);
// if the query returns any results, loop through them and process them as required
if( $portfolio_query->have_posts() ):
while ( $portfolio_query->have_posts() ) :
$portfolio_query->the_post();
// do stuff with the post here, e.g. display the post...
endwhile;
endif;
// IMPORTANT! The custom query will overwrite the $post values that are used in the the_post etc.
// This restores the the current post in the main query - i.e. your homepage post.
wp_reset_postdata();
I have Portfolio custom post type with category. I would like to use a template to get Portfolio Posts by Only one category.
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'portfolio',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'category_name' => 'casino'
);
If I use category_name with a category slug like 'casino', I have to create templates for every category, but I don't want it. I want to use only one template & the category slug will be placed dynamically on the category_name value. How can I create it?
To create a category template for a custom post:
get the category object using;
<?php $term = get_queried_object(); ?>
you can then echo this, as a page title, so that your users will know they are browsing a certain category, then using it in the custom query parameters.
<?php echo $term->name; ?> // shows category name
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'portfolio',
'category_name' => $term->slug
);
I've generated three different custom post types (e.g. books, movies, games).
And I've a custom taxonomy for all of them (e.g. genre).
What I need are archives for the taxanomy based on the post types.
For example: "books-genre", "movies-genre"...
Is there any solution to do that? Now I've only the taxonomy archive for "genre".
The way I like to approach custom post archives is to create a custom archive template with WP_Query sections where I need them. You'd create the blank file in the root of your theme at archive-cptnamehere.php.
You might have some template partials to add in but the core of the page looks like this:
<?php
// 1- Get ID of the page's path by URL (reliable)
$pagePath = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$pageObject = get_page_by_path($pagePath);
$pagePathID = $pageObject->ID;
// 2- Print page title
$teamPageTitle = get_the_title($pagePathID);
echo $teamPageTitle;
// 3 - Do a query that gets the data you need
// Args: -1 shows all locations, orders locations alphabetically by title, orders locations a-z, only query against team items
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'orderby' => 'title',
'order' => 'ASC',
'post_type' => 'team',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'team_page_categorization',
'value' => $team_page_categorization_options_array_item,
'compare' => 'LIKE'
)
)
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
// 4- Setup query while loop
if($the_query->have_posts()) {
while($the_query->have_posts()) {
$the_query->the_post();
// 5- Do what you need to inside the loop
// 6- Close it all up, don't forget to reset_postdata so you can do additional queries if necessary!
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}
?>
I am trying to find a way to achive the following: I'd like to make a custom template. Within this template I'd like to list the name of each category on my site that has at least 1 item assigned to it. Beneath the category name (and link) I'd like to insert some content from the first x number of items that have that particular category assigned.
Just in case it makes a massive difference the items in question are not posts, but custom items.
Can anyone give me some pointers or help? I assume there will be something I can do with the wp_query function, but I'm not really sure how to inject it between each of the category titles, or indeed how to make it work with a category for which I can't explicitly provide an id in the code).
Thank you.
get_posts() is your ideal solution. For example:
<?php $posts_array = get_posts( $args ); ?>
<?php $args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 1,
'category' => $post_cat,
'orderby' => 'post_date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'post_type' => 'yourcustompostname',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'suppress_filters' => true );
$myposts = get_posts( $args );
///respective loop here ie : foreach $myposts as $mypost ... etc
?>
Where $post_cat is the id of your category and post_type is the custom post type.
To keep these 'items' organized I would create a custom post and then assign a category to those posts, for each respective category (if there are multiple). If there is just one, than you could live with just using a single category.
EDIT:
to get the categories assigned to this custom post take a look at this link
Using the results from this you could assign the cat id's to the variable created earlier: $post_cat.
You have to use query_posts function
query_posts(array('category_name'=>'category-slug','posts_per_page'=>'5'));
then you need to do
while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
and you can get the post id using:
$p_id = get_the_ID();
for more information : query_posts
You can use get_categories()
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_categories
But, then you need to find out where the data for 'items' is stored, and query depending on that.
Here is the answer of your problem. You need to change the category id of own post category id .
Here is the code. just copy and past it.
$query1 = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'post','cat' =>'10,9') );
Use the above query in loop and after loop,reset your query . see the below code.
wp_reset_query();
Please use it and let me know if needs anything else.
I am trying to display posts ordered alphabetically by title, only for a certain category. I have tried to follow the instructions in the Codex but I am confused because my code in the template pages looks quite different from the examples in the Codex.
I have a category named "designers" so I duplicated the category.php and named it category-designers.php. Inside, there is a call to a loop-designers.php
Inside the category-designers, I have tried the Codex pice of code:
$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'orderby'=> 'title', 'order' => 'ASC' );
$glossaryposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $glossaryposts as $post ) : setup_postdata($post);
get_template_part('loop', 'designers');
endforeach;
But the output is weird: first it displays a list of posts ordered by date, then it displays the same posts but ordered alphabetically, only that the alphabetically ordered list is repeated as many times as posts are (9 in this case).
I know I must be doing something terribly wrong but can't find examples using the get_template_part, they all use a foreach just like in the Codex.
Thanks for your answers.
Edited: in my loop-designers.php I have basically the same as in the loop.php, but with modifications so for that category no date, tags or other info are shown. I pasted the HTML here http://jsfiddle.net/6qdvF/
With the piece of code you have there you are including a loop in a loop. Using get_posts() with a foreach loop is essentially a WP loop, then you are including get_template_part('loop', 'designers'); which is more than likely another loop.
You can remove get_template_part('loop', 'designers'); from your piece of code and just stick in your tags to get the desired content, (i.e the_content(); the_title; the_excerpt; etc..) or you can create a new loop with wp_query() like the below example.
<?php
$query = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'post', 'cat' => 1, 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'orderby' => 'title', 'order' => 'ASC'));
while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();
?>
// put your content template tags here
<?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
This loop will query "Posts" and category 1. You can change 'post_type' => 'post', to query other post types by changing the word post to the post type name. Or change the category number to the desired category ID you wish to query.