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ThemeShaper Forums Tag: return http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Sun, 26 May 2013 00:06:58 +0000 AnotherAndrew on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23093 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:46:54 +0000 AnotherAndrew 23093@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I am answering my own question for future time travelers!</p> <p>To use the sticky post feature, I parsed in an array into the wp query that would include the sticky post option, like so</p> <pre><code>$args=array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post__in'=>get_option('sticky_posts'), 'category__in'=> array (10), 'showposts' => 1, 'caller_get_posts'=> 1 ); $featurednews = new WP_Query( $args ); // ETC from the code above in this discussion</code></pre> AnotherAndrew on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23086 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:37:03 +0000 AnotherAndrew 23086@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>O, wow, I did not know about this sticky post option. </p> <p>This is just what I was thinking about and looking for. </p> <p>How does that work? </p> middlesister on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23085 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:26:10 +0000 middlesister 23085@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Cool! Ok, good to know for the future. </p> AnotherAndrew on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23084 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:23:37 +0000 AnotherAndrew 23084@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>You the man. That does work. </p> <p>Just so you know, you do need to get rid of the last wp_reset_postdata() or else, at least in my case, I got a 403 on my admin login page. </p> middlesister on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23083 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:09:32 +0000 middlesister 23083@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>The post formatting don't work if you just put everything in echo like that, jump out of php to write the html like this</p> <pre><code><?php $featurednews = new WP_Query( 'tag=featured&cat=10&posts_per_page=1&orderby=date' ); if ( $featurednews->have_posts() ) : while ( $featurednews->have_posts()) : $featurednews->the_post(); // post formatting goes here ?> <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <div class="home-thumbnail"> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(160,160))?></a> </div> <div class="text"> <h2>latest news: <?php the_date('F j, Y');?></h2> <h3><?php the_title() ?></h3> <?php the_excerpt() ?> </div> </div> <?php endwhile; else : $fallback_news = new WP_Query( 'cat=10&posts_per_page=1&orderby=date' ); while ($fallback_news->have_posts()) : $fallback_news->the_post(); // post formatting goes here ?> <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <div class="home-thumbnail"> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(160,160))?></a> </div> <div class="text"> <h2>latest news: <?php the_date('F j, Y');?></h2> <h3><?php the_title() ?></h3> <?php the_excerpt() ?> </div> </div> <?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata(); endif; wp_reset_postdata(); ?></code></pre> <p>Like I said it <em>ought</em> to work, but I haven't tested it yet. I'll come back when I have. </p> AnotherAndrew on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23080 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:54:57 +0000 AnotherAndrew 23080@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Yes, I made some edits, but I'm not getting any posts to return.</p> <p>Here is my code<br /> <pre><code><?php $featurednews = new WP_Query( 'tag=featured&cat=10&posts_per_page=1&orderby=date' ); if ( $featurednews->have_posts() ) : while ( $featurednews->have_posts()) : $featurednews->the_post(); // post formatting goes here echo ' <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <div class="home-thumbnail"> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(160,160))?></a> </div> <div class="text"> <h2>latest news: <?php the_date(\'F j, Y\');?></h2> <h3><?php the_title() ?></h3> <?php the_excerpt() ?> </div> </div> '; endwhile; else : $fallback_news = new WP_Query( 'cat=10&posts_per_page=1&orderby=date' ); while ($fallback_news->have_posts()) : $fallback_news->the_post(); // post formatting goes here echo ' <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <div class="home-thumbnail"> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(160,160))?></a> </div> <div class="text"> <h2>latest news: <?php the_date(\'F j, Y\');?></h2> <h3><?php the_title() ?></h3> <?php the_excerpt() ?> </div> </div> '; endwhile; wp_reset_postdata(); endif; wp_reset_postdata(); ?></code></pre> middlesister on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23079 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:19:23 +0000 middlesister 23079@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Sorry, a typo in the second while loop - its <code>$fallback_news</code> and not <code>$sfallback_news</code> of course.<br /> Or did I miss something else? </p> AnotherAndrew on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23078 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:43:41 +0000 AnotherAndrew 23078@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>O, ok, thanks! That seems to make more sense.</p> <p>Hmm, your syntax is missing something.... </p> middlesister on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23073 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:25:38 +0000 middlesister 23073@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Ok I see, the category is a fallback. Well try this</p> <pre><code>$featurednews = new WP_Query( 'tag=featured&cat=10&posts_per_page=1&orderby=date' ); if ( $featurednews->have_posts() ) : while ( $featurednews->have_posts()) ) : $featurednews->the_post(); // post formatting goes here endwhile; else : $fallback_news = new WP_Query( 'cat=10&posts_per_page=1&orderby=date' ); while ($sfallback_news->have_posts()) : $fallback_news->the_post(); // post formatting goes here endwhile; wp_reset_postdata(); endif; wp_reset_postdata();</code></pre> <p>I haven't tried nesting things like this, but it ought to work. Maybe you don't need to use reset_postdata twice but only the second one. </p> AnotherAndrew on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23072 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:01:13 +0000 AnotherAndrew 23072@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>> Would you remove the featured tag each time you want a 'normal' category post to be displayed?</p> <p>No, the loop would place priority on a post with a tag of 'featured'. If no posts in the category have a tag of 'featured' then it would select the latest post. </p> middlesister on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23068 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:26:11 +0000 middlesister 23068@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Well is_tag() checks whether the page is a tag archive page, so it will never be true on a category page.<br /> Maybe you could try with has_tag( 'featured' ) instead? I think it uses the current post in the loop, and if called outside the loop needs a post ID parameter has_tag( 'featured', ID).<br /> I'm not sure I follow the logic of what you want to do. Would you remove the featured tag each time you want a 'normal' category post to be displayed? </p> AnotherAndrew on "retireve post based on category and or tag" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/retireve-post-based-on-category-and-or-tag#post-23062 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:16:37 +0000 AnotherAndrew 23062@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I would like to be able to retrieve a post in a category based on if it has a certain tag. </p> <p>Or in other words, I would like my loop to return the latest post from a certain category BUT if it has a tag of 'featured' then it would return the latest post with that tag first.</p> <p>If the post does not have the tag 'featured' associated, then it would return the next latest post from that category without the tag 'featured'.</p> <p>Maybe, ideally, the post could have a custom field for 'featured'?</p> <p>I am using this code but not getting the results I want. Anyone have suggestions?</p> <pre><code><?php if (is_category(10) || is_tag('featured')) { $featurednews = new WP_Query( 'tag=featured&cat=10&posts_per_page=1&orderby=date' ); }; else (is_category(10) { $featurednews = new WP_Query( 'cat=10&posts_per_page=1&orderby=date' ); } while ( $featurednews->have_posts() ) { $featurednews->the_post(); // fill $post with data ?> <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <div class="home-thumbnail"> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail(array(160,160))?></a> </div> <div class="text"> <h2>latest news: <?php the_date('F j, Y');?> </h2> <h3><?php the_title() ?></h3> <?php the_excerpt() ?> </div> </div> <?php } rewind_posts(); ?></code></pre>