Wordpress rewind query not working - php

Question

I've got a little sidebar that displaying in the code before the main page content. I wrote this (janky) function to pull in recent posts and comments. Works great, however, its screwing with all my pages and putting posts on all of them. How do I reset/rewind the query or make a new one so all my pages display the correct content?
<?php rewind_posts(); ?>and<?php wp_reset_query(); ?> arent doing the trick for me
Here is my query:
$comments = get_comments('number=10');
$posts = get_posts('posts_per_page=10&category=6');
$most_recent = array();
foreach ($comments as $comment)
$most_recent[strtotime($comment->comment_date_gmt)] = $comment;
foreach ($posts as $post)
$most_recent[strtotime($post->post_date_gmt)] = $post;
unset($comments, $posts);
krsort($most_recent);
$most_recent = array_slice($most_recent, 0, 10);
foreach ($most_recent as $post_or_comment) {
$is_post = isset($post_or_comment->post_date_gmt);
$comment_id = $post_or_comment->comment_ID;
$post_id = $post_or_comment->ID;
$comment_post_id = $post_or_comment->comment_post_ID;
if ($is_post == 1)
{ ?> <li><?php echo $post_or_comment->post_title; ?><span class="tag"><?php echo the_category($post_id); ?></span></li><?php }
else
{ ?><li> <?php echo get_the_title($comment_post_id); ?><span class="tag">Comment</span></li><?php }
// output comments and posts
}
output comments and posts
}

Answer 1

Try using $my_posts and $my_comments instead, just in case WP is using samely-named globals (though I don't think it is).
Also, in your foreach loop, you should only be casting variables when you know the object type, otherwise you're accessing non-existent properties;
foreach ($most_recent as $post_or_comment) {
$is_post = isset($post_or_comment->post_date_gmt);
if ($is_post) {
$post_id = $post_or_comment->ID;
} else {
$comment_id = $post_or_comment->comment_ID;
$comment_post_id = $post_or_comment->comment_post_ID;
}
}
rewind_posts() will have no effect here. Just call wp_reset_query() right after the foreach loop ends.