thiesenmurray
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
I'm having a problem with a custom query loop. I want on the homepage always a number of three posts. Some of that posts are events so sometimes there are three but there are also times that there are zero or two posts. I always want to fill in the left over spaces with other posts from other custom post types. The events are the most important so I want to say in my loop: count the number of events and if there're less then three, show another custom post type to fill up the three.
Thanks in advance
thiesenmurray
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Guys, I fixed it by myself. Here's the code with comments
<!-- here starts the normal loop -->
<?php query_posts( 'post_type=events'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<!-- There's a count in the loop that starts at zero. After 3 he break's the loop -->
<?php static $count = 0;
if ($count == "3") { break; }
else { ?>
<!-- The normal loop -->
<div class="test">
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<!-- before running the loop again, php adds 1 up in the count variable -->
<?php $count++; } ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<!-- Setting a if statement. If the loop is 1, then show another loop with an custom post type -->
<?php if ( $count == "1" ) { ?>
<?php query_posts( 'post_type=media&showposts=2'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="test">
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php } ?>
<!-- Setting a if statement. If the loop is 2, then show another loop with an custom post type -->
<?php if ( $count == "2" ) { ?>
<?php query_posts( 'post_type=media&showposts=1'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="test">
<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php } ?>
<?php endif; ?>
