Weird comments behavior after using WP_query()

  • Resolved gianko_olivieri

    (@gianko_olivieri)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    so.. i modified my single.php file to show the latest five post in that category this way:

    <?php  $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=' . $numero. '&showposts=5');
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>
    <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Link Permanente a <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

  <?php endwhile; ?>

    that code is after the loop and before the comments.

    And now the comments in one post appear in other posts.. haha…

    the problem, i guest, is in this line:
    $my_query = new WP_Query(‘cat=’ . $numero. ‘&showposts=5’);

    Help, please 🙂

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  • Roger Theriault

    (@rogertheriault)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    When you’re done your “latest five posts” loop, try 

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
      update_post_caches($posts); ?>
   <!-- Do comment stuff here... -->
  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    This is all documented on http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Multiple_Loops but you need to carefully read through all the examples to understand it, unfortunately.

    Thread Starter gianko_olivieri

    (@gianko_olivieri)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Yeah!!! thanks, that fixed it!…

    here is the final code, if someone is having the same problem.

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
	<!-- POST STUFF -->
	<?php endwhile; else: ?>
	<!-- 404 STUFF -->
<?php endif; ?>
<?php  $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=X&showposts=5');
	while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
	$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID;?>
	<!-- 5 LATEST POST STUFF -->
	<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
	update_post_caches($posts); ?>
	<!-- COMMENTS STUFF -->
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    where X is the Cat ID

    Marcomail

    (@marcomail)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    I don’t have

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();

    on comments.php

    i only have

    <?php comments_template(); ?>

    Roger Theriault

    (@rogertheriault)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    @marcomail, we’re talking about a posts query. comments.php is only supposed to display comments, not posts. Look in single.php. That page typically includes comments.php, so on a single post page, it uses the $wp_query->comments list to display the comments for the related post.

    If you’re writing a custom query (like the posters above), then we’re explaining that you need to restore the default $wp_query global variable, otherwise your comments_template() function call will use the most recent query data, and display the wrong comments or none at all.

    I hope that’s why you asked your question.

    BTW there is a have_comments() loop, but for comments.php customization you should stick with the default comments.php and just use CSS, or make a custom Walker class if you like to dig into PHP.

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