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1. Paracetamol
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello!
   I'm using custom field meta (boolean) to tag posts for display on the front page. (with the help of Custom Field GUI)

   For doing so, I copied the code for an alternative loop as described in this post. This worked out better than other solutions I've read of, I can even continue using template tags!

   Sadly, the single template tag not being display is the_content();! I suppose this has something to do with the database query, but that's just a guess. Is there any way to make this display the_content();?
   
<?php
$customkey = 'Main'; // set to your custom key
global $wpdb;
$my_posts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts, $wpdb->postmeta WHERE ID = post_id AND meta_key = '$customkey' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1");
foreach($my_posts as $post) :
?>
<!-- my template here -->
<?php endforeach; ?>


   Edit: Sorry, I just realized, the original post is only a week old. You can probably still post there.

2. Paracetamol
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I made it! Don't know why, but this one's working perfectly:

   
<?php $pageposts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT wposts.* FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id AND wpostmeta.meta_key = 'Main' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1", OBJECT); ?>
<?php if ($pageposts) : foreach ($pageposts as $post): ?>
<?php setup_postdata($post); ?>
//Content of the Loop//
<?php endforeach;?>
<?php endif; ?>


   The code derives from this post with alternative ORDER parameter.

   It displays the single latest post with the custom field "Main" set TRUE on my home.php template.

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