Always three posts from multiple custom post types

  • Resolved thiesenmurray

    (@thiesenmurray)


    13 years, 2 months 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

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  • Thread Starter thiesenmurray

    (@thiesenmurray)

    13 years, 2 months 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; ?>
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