Posted 11 months ago #
I'm using get_posts with the following args:
$args=array('numberposts'=>2,'post_type'=>'post','orderby'=>'rand');I'd like to only get posts that have a thumbnail. Is there a way to pass has_post_thumbnail as an argument? I know it's possible to use get_option within the array and I've tried adding this:
'include'=>get_option('has_post_thumbnail')which does not cause an error—but doesn't work either. Anyone know how to pull this off?
as discussed here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-the-post-only-if-thumbnail-is-set-up?replies=17
add this to your args array:
'meta_key' => '_thumbnail_id'
Posted 11 months ago #
Brilliant—thank you!
It works, except now I can't seem to get it to show more than 3 posts.
If I set 'numberposts'=>1 it shows 1. If I set 'numberposts'=>2, it shows 2. If I set 'numberposts'=>3 or higher it shows 3. Also they're not the more recent three, which (I think) they should be by default.
$args = array(
'numberposts'=>5, // should show 5 but only shows 3
'post_type'=>'post', // posts only
'meta_key'=>'_thumbnail_id', // with thumbnail
'exclude'=>$post->ID // exclude current post
);the code works on my local wp3.1.3 install; no problem showing 5 posts.
do all your posts, that you expect to see, have a featured image attached?
you could try the new query parameter for custom fields:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters
according to that chapter, 'meta_key' seems to become deprecated;
or possibly an interference of some other code or plugins.
Posted 11 months ago #
Nice one! Changing meta_key to meta_query did it. Thank you =)
$args = array(
'numberposts'=>5, // show 5 posts
'post_type'=>'post', // posts only
'meta_query'=>'_thumbnail_id', // with thumbnail
'exclude'=>$post->ID // exclude current post
);
Posted 11 months ago #
Doh! Or maybe not. The above actually doesn't work. When I added orderby randomize posts w/o thumbnails shows up too. I tried meta_query as an array too. I'm back to this just showing 3, but I might just take out the thumbnail arg and just show the recent ones, all of which do have thumbs (added via 'set featured image')
$args=array(
'numberposts'=>5, //(should) show 5 posts
'post_type'=>'post', //posts only
'meta_key'=>'_thumbnail_id', //with thumbnail
'exclude'=>$post->ID, //exclude current post
'orderby'=>'rand' //randomize
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