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1. t.leitner
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hello everybody!

   How can I filter the attachments (images) of a post by menu_order? I want to get all the images with menu_order > 0. At the moment I'm using the following code:

   $attachments = get_children( array('post_parent' => $post->ID, 'numberposts' => 0, 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'menu_order ID') );

   Adding 'menu_order' => '>0' to the arguments array didn't work. I also tried to use the posts_where filter, but it didn't work either. Any idea how to get this work?

   Thanks for your help!
   Thomas

2. Jackson
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   The simplest way may be to check the menu_order as you loop through the attachments, ie (pseudo-code):

   foreach($attachments as $attachment => $attachment_array ) {
       if( $attachment['menu_order'] > 0 ) {
           // Do your thing here.
       }
   }

3. t.leitner
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thank you very much for your reply. I really didn't consider the way you mentioned. I think I'll give it a try :-)

   The more comfortable way would be to get the filtered attachments directly from the database, as I need them to count, set the next / previous link and so on....

   All I want to do is to exclude some images from the gallery without putting id's into the shortcode. So I want to use 0 or -1 in the order field to ignore them. Maybe I'll try to extend the built-in gallery with an 'ignore' field....

   Thanks,
   Thomas

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