I have multiple post types - 'news', 'events' and 'others'. I want to combine them in one query - sorted by the date of creation. At the moment the following query provides the result:
query_posts( array(
'post_type' => array('news', 'events', 'others'),
'showposts' => 4,
'order' => 'DESC'
) );
The post type 'events' have a custom field which is called 'cf_date'. This field contains the date of the event. The posts of the post type 'events' should first appear 10 days before the start. How is it possible, that the events can be created flexible and will be displayed (added to the query) 10 days before the event?
Thank you for your help!
Create a template named archive-events.php, copying the existing archive.php in your theme. Inside the loop, insert your test for the date, using get_post_meta on the date field. Set the template on Page Attributes to the name you used for archive-events.php.
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I've added mentionId field on wp_posts table on MySQL.
Now, I need to make a query that; "get posts by mentionId" but couldn't make it with get_posts() function on WordPress.
Here is my example code.
'posts_per_page' => $_GET["end"]-$_GET["start"],
'offset' => $_GET["start"],
'orderby' => 'ID',
'sort_order' => 'desc',
'meta_key' => 'mentionId',
'meta_value' => '40243'
How to include that extra field?
I suggest you to not to touch the database by adding new fields or tables because you may loose your changes when you update your Wordpress core. The meta_key are located at the wp_termmeta table (not recommended to touch!). I suggest you to install ACF Plugin where you can add meta_key values and create a custom query out of it.
I have a custom post type called BID which contains a user's bids (similar to freelancer.com, upwork, etc) However I need the BID results on the page to be ordered by meta stored in a users profile, which is a custom post type PROFILE.
How would I go about doing this?
Here is my current Query
WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => array(BID, PROFILE),
'post_parent' => get_the_ID(),
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => 'DESC',
'meta_key' => 'rating_score',
'post_status' => array('publish','complete', 'accept', 'unaccept')
)
);
I don't know of a way to do this with WP_Query alone so I'd probably write some extra PHP to do this. I'm not sure exactly how things are set up so I can't write code, but here's the general idea.
Generate your bid results without paying much attention to how they are ordered.
Loop through your generated query result and, for each item, define a new attribute that fetches the meta information from the corresponding profile meta.
Order your array using this new meta information. You might be able to use PHP's sort() function, or if you need a more general function, try usort()
I'm struggling to make two custom queries for visual composer:
a query which will display posts which are published with a date after today's date (have plugin which publishes future posts) in Ascending or descending order (whichever makes it show the soonest upcoming event first)
a query which will display only posts which meet multiple category requirements (eg. categories 'upcoming' and 'class' or 'upcoming' and 'social'
Really, either of these should give me the results I want, but the first would be most convenient.
I can't for the life of me decipher the Codex's page on custom queries and figure out how to get them to work outside of the context of a php page, and in the context of the visual compose.
One thought I had is that perhaps I need to add a custom query to my functions.php that has a name, and then call the query with the variables from Visual Composer? Is that the right idea? How would I do such a thing/call the new query?
I've tried the following to satisfy #1 and it seems to have disregarded the query altogether and just displayed all the events:
[vc_basic_grid post_type="custom" grid_id="vc_gid:1473741223498-3776c0d3-292b-4" custom_query="WP_Query( ''showposts=20&monthnum=' . date_query( array( 'after', . NOW() . ) ) . '&order_by=date&order=DESC')"]
[vc_separator]
[vc_basic_grid post_type="custom" grid_id="vc_gid:1473741223504-67e7758b-8892-6" custom_query="$args = array(
'date_query' => array(
array(
'after' => NOW(),
'inclusive' => true,
),
),
'posts_per_page' => -1, 'order_by' => 'date', 'order' => 'ASC'
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );"]
Would love some nudges in the right direction!
Thank you :)
I did something similar not too long ago and used the following as far as the date & making sure it only pulled posts from "today" and in the future.
_EventStartDate=>$today
That was for pulling upcoming events for a custom post type. With that said, this code is for your scenario which is retrieving normal posts:
date=>$today
Here's my whole custom query that works to pull events but I'm stuck on trying to figure out how to pull from multiple categories as well:
post_type=tribe_events&tribe_events_cat=featured&post_status=publish&_EventStartDate=>$today&orderby=_EventStartDate&order=asc
Please follow up once you have a solution.
I'm trying to get 4 posts in order by 'pageviews' from a plugin named Wordpress Popular posts. I found in phpmyadmin where it stores the page views per post. My problem is that the values for 'pageviews' for the post is not in the wp_postmeta but in a separate table: wp_popularpostdata and named pageviews. Please help :)
phpmyadmin
from wp_popularpostdata
postid | pageviews
..1..............14
the code below I'm trying returns nothing
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 4,
'meta_key' => pageviews,
'orderby' => meta_value_num,
'order' => DESC,
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
You could use the built-in function wpp_get_mostpopular as explained here:
if (function_exists('wpp_get_mostpopular'))
wpp_get_mostpopular("range=weekly&order_by=comments");
If it isn't sufficient to you, you'll have to alter the query through wordpress filters like posts_join, posts_where and etc. The docs should help you to find the way.
I am working on site where i want to sort the books (Custom post type) with user current city. For example if my city is Sialkot and there are three books with custom fields Sialkot show them on top. What i have already done is
Store user city as custom field
Get the current user city
Only need help for sorting data. Currently i am sorting with meta key and meta value.
Thanks in advance.
You can simply add the below code and thats all
query_posts('&meta_key=popularity&orderby=meta_value');
Here popularity is the name of the custom field
The better way to get sorted the current user city as below
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'books',
'meta_key' => 'user_city', // SPECIFY YOUR CUSTOM FIELD SLUG
'orderby' => 'meta_value',
'order'=> 'DESC'
);
$posts = get_posts( $args );
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